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bickers

bickers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bicker.

Meaning of bicker

Verb

bicker (third-person singular simple present bickers, present participle bickering, simple past and past participle bickered)

  1. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
    • They bickered about dinner every evening.
  2. To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
    • Mean time unnumber'd glittering Streamlets play'd, / And hurled every-where their Waters ſheen; / That, as they bicker'd through the ſunny Glade, / Though reſtleſs ſtill themſelves, a lulling Murmur made.1748, James Thomson, “Canto I”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza III, page 2
  3. To patter.
  4. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
    • And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, tvvo Ægles had a conflict and bickered together in all their fights: and vvhen the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third came at the very inſtant from the ſunne riſing and chaſed the Victreſſe avvay.1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Flavius Vespatianus Augustus”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […]...

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What is bickers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bickers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bicker.

Words near bickers in the dictionary

  1. bickerings
  2. bickerment
  3. bickerments
  4. bickern
  5. bickerns
  6. bickers
  7. bickers like a married couple
  8. bickers like an old married couple
  9. Bickershaw
  10. bickersome
  11. Bickerstaff

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