bickering

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bickering

adjective more bickering · most bickering

That bickers; argumentative.

noun bickerings

Petty quarreling. 1820, in Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, By William Coxe, Ch.40 heading. Meeting of Parliament. — Choice of a whig Speaker. — Speech from the throne. — Parliamentary proceedings, and party bickerings.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of bicker

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Closest in meaning: squabble, tiff, fuss, spat, quarrelling, squabbling, quarrel, wrangling, feud, dispute, quibbling, controversy, rivalry, infighting, strife, skirmish

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noun petty quarreling

Español	riña
हिन्दी	कहासुनी kahāsunī, नोक-झोंक nok-jhõk
Français	chamaillerie
Deutsch	Gezanke
Русский	перебранка perebranka

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@misc{bickering_2026,
  title = {bickering},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bickering},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}