From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from [en] [en], from [en] (compare [ang], [nl], [de], [non]),
from [en]. Compare also [nds-de].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To quarrel in a tiresome , insulting manner.
2. * [sermonname=Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars]
3. * [en]
4. To brawl or move tremulously , quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
5. * [stanza=III]
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1886 | title= Basa Sunda: The Brook (Tennyson) | author= 吴语: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
|passage=I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And
sparkle out among the fern, / To BICKER down a valley.}}
1. (of rain) To patter .
2. To skirmish ; to exchange blows; to fight.
3. * [section=5]
***** Synonyms
- [en]
- See also Thesaurus:squabble
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[quarrel in a tiresome manner]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] [often in a negative way]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] A skirmish ; an encounter .
2. [en] A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
3. * [en]
4. A wrangle ; also, a noise, as in angry contention .
5. The process by which selective eating club s at [Princeton University] choose new members.
6. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2005 | author=Alison Fraser | title=Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey | publisher=College Prowler, Inc | isbn=9781596581005 | page=41
|passage= BICKER process varies by club, and there are often concerns of the
rights of female students during BICKER [...]}}
***** Translations
[skirmish]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en]. [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A wooden drinking-cup or other dish .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1824 | author=w:James Hogg | title=The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | page=6 | publisher=Oxford | year_published=2010
|passage=…the liquors were handed around in great fulness, the ale in large
wooden BICKERS, and the brandy in capacious horns of oxen.}}
**** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
[Bicker]
[en]