Past tense of bicker
regular verb
The past tense of bicker is bickered. The past participle is also bickered.
Forms of bicker
| Base form (V1) | bicker /ˈbɪkɚ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | bickered |
| Past participle (V3) | bickered |
| Present participle | bickering |
| Third person singular | bickers |
Bickered in a sentence
- They bickered about dinner every evening.
- At Zanies last May she sportively bickered with the vocal crowd.2006 October 13, Ryan Hubbard, “Chelsea Handler”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry sportively
- Dad had placed a cob of corn on a stump for the jays, who bickered over it non-stop.1994, Douglas Coupland, Life After God, Washington Square Press,, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry cob
Meaning of bicker
- verb To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
- verb To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.).
- verb To patter.
Questions about the past tense of bicker
- What is the past tense of bicker?
- The past tense of bicker is bickered.
- What is the past participle of bicker?
- The past participle of bicker is bickered.
- Is bicker a regular or irregular verb?
- Bicker is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bicker (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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