Antonyms for bicker


Grammar : Verb
Spell : bik-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɪk ər


Definition of bicker

Origin :
  • early 14c., bikere, "to skirmish, fight," perhaps from Middle Dutch bicken "to slash, stab, attack," + -er, Middle English frequentative suffix. Meaning "to quarrel" is from mid-15c. Related: Bickered; bickering.
  • verb nastily argue
Example sentences :
  • To bicker, argue, and debate would have been entirely at odds with its standards.
  • Extract from : « Paul and the Printing Press » by Sara Ware Bassett
  • And who taught me to smoke a cobbler, pin a losen, head a bicker, and hold the bannets?
  • Extract from : « Red Gauntlet » by Sir Walter Scott
  • The house which Bicker occupied had always been used as a tavern.
  • Extract from : « Old Taverns of New York » by William Harrison Bayles
  • It will be a heavy deficit—a staff out o' my bicker, I trow.
  • Extract from : « Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated » by Sir Walter Scott
  • Yet now I will not bicker with thee, for be sure that I am glad at heart.
  • Extract from : « The Roots of the Mountains » by William Morris
  • Do you know what my men would do to you and Bicker if they learned the truth?
  • Extract from : « Boys of The Fort » by Ralph Bonehill
  • "You know well enough, Bicker," answered Captain Moore sternly.
  • Extract from : « Boys of The Fort » by Ralph Bonehill
  • You and Bicker plotted to get us all sick and then let the Indians and Gilroy's gang in on us.
  • Extract from : « Boys of The Fort » by Ralph Bonehill
  • Bicker, Mead and the passenger-purser passed the evening in the village.
  • Extract from : « The Bonadventure » by Edmund Blunden
  • They were cast in a quieter time and refuse to bicker on a paltry minute.
  • Extract from : « Hints to Pilgrims » by Charles Stephen Brooks

Synonyms for bicker

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