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# bicker

«bicker» in Mova's school dictionary: **to argue or quarrel about small things, again and again** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (bicker, bickers, bickered, bickering); noun (a bicker)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To bicker is to argue or quarrel about small things, again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicker/#m1)

2) (old use) A bicker is a small wooden drinking bowl or cup, and a bicker of spirits is a cupful of drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicker/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales two heroes bicker, that is, quarrel often, yet still love each other; in old tales a bicker is a small wooden cup

### examples

- The two sisters bicker about who sits by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicker/#x1)
- Why do you always bicker with your brother? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicker/#x2)
- The old man drank a bicker of ale before bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicker/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bicker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.