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},
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"word": "bicker like a married couple"
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"t": "to peck, pick at"
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"singular",
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},
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"present"
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"text": "They bickered about dinner every evening.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55",
"text": "Travelling with their granny, who seems more interested in her crossword puzzle than them, they bicker and fight in a futile bid to get her attention. Oh, the joys of travelling during the school holidays!",
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}
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"To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dǎrlja se",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "дърля се"
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"roman": "karam se",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "карам се"
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{
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "lluitar verbalment"
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{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "鬥嘴"
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dòuzuǐ",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "斗嘴"
},
{
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "skændes"
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{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "da",
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "mundhugges"
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "harrewarren"
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "bekvechten"
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "kibbelen"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "kiistellä"
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{
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "nahistella"
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "miteinander rangeln"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
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],
"word": "in den Haaren liegen"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "in Streit geraten"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "bisticciare"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "litigare"
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{
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kenkasuru",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "喧嘩する"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "jurgo"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "komekome"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "tarahae"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "korokīkī"
},
{
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
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],
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},
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"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "posprzeczać się"
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{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "rixar"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pererugivatʹsja",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "переругиваться"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prepiratʹsja",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "препираться"
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"note": "often in a negative way",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "discutir"
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"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "gnabbas"
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{
"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "kivas"
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "munhuggas"
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"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "käbbla"
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"_dis1": "76 6 7 11",
"code": "cy",
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"sense": "quarrel in a tiresome manner",
"word": "ymgecru"
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"ref": "1886, Tennyson, The Brook",
"text": "I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley.",
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"To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)"
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"(of rain) To patter."
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"To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight."
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"_dis1": "87 5 4 4",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "skirmish",
"word": "衝突"
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"word": "kina"
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"ref": "2005, Alison Fraser, Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, College Prowler, Inc, page 41",
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"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Scots",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/ɪkə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ɪkə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"en:Containers"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sco",
"3": "bicker"
},
"expansion": "Scots bicker",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "biker"
},
"expansion": "Middle English biker",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "beaker"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of beaker",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Scots bicker, from Middle English biker. Doublet of beaker.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bickers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "bicker (plural bickers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Scottish English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 6",
"text": "…the liquors were handed around in great fulness, the ale in large wooden bickers, and the brandy in capacious horns of oxen.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A wooden drinking-cup or other dish."
],
"links": [
[
"dish",
"dish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɪkɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɪkə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪkə(ɹ)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bicker.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bicker.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bicker.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bicker.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bicker.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "bicker"
}
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