Noun: bicker
| Singular | bicker |
| Plural | bickers |
Sample Sentences
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Even if he did not take part in the fighting himself, he was no doubt familiar with those who had been taught, ass Darsie Latimer was by Alan Fairford, to "smoke a cobbler, spin a lozen, head a bicker, and hold the bannets" - in other words, to break a window, head a skirmish with stones, and hold the bonnet[…] [1773, R. Ford, “Biographical Introduction”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Ferguson:]
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Bicker process varies by club, and there are often concerns of the rights of female students during bicker […] [2005, Alison Fraser, Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, College Prowler, Inc, →ISBN, page 41:]
Nouns inflected like bicker
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *bikjaną
4. Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan
5. Old Dutch *bikken
6. Middle Dutch bickenbor.
7. Proto-Germanic *-urōną
8. Proto-West Germanic *-urōn
9. Old English -erian
10. Middle English -eren
11. Middle English bikeren
12. English bicker
13. From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Old Dutch *bikken, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan, from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”).
14. See also Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”); compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”). See: Old English Nouns '
becca', Old Norse Nouns '
bikkja'.