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 Bick·er v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bickered p. pr. & vb. n. Bickering.]
 1. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.]
    Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.   --Holland.
 2. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
    Petty things about which men cark and bicker.   --Barrow.
 3. To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.
    They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade.   --Thomson.

 Bick·er·ing, n.
 1. A skirmishing. “Frays and bickerings.”
 2. Altercation; wrangling.
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 bickering
      n : a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, spat, tiff,
           squabble, pettifoggery, fuss]