Tom and Mary bicker all day long.
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Bicker
//ˈbɪkɚ//
Synonyms for "bicker" (150 found)
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Noun(4 words)
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39 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- дърля се verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
- карам се verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Catalan
1 entries- lluitar verbalment verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 衝突 /冲突 noun (skirmish)
- 鬥嘴 /斗嘴 verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Danish
2 entries- mundhugges verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
- skændes verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Dutch
1 entries- kibbelen verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Finnish
4 entries- kiista noun (skirmish)
- kina noun (skirmish)
- nahistelu noun (skirmish)
- kiistellä verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
German
1 entries- sich zanken verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Hungarian
1 entries- veszekedik verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Icelandic
2 entries- karpa verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
- þrasa verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Italian
4 entries- bisticcio noun (skirmish)
- lite noun (skirmish)
- bisticciare verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
- litigare verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Japanese
1 entries- 喧嘩する verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Latin
1 entries- iūrgō verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Māori
3 entries- komekome verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
- korokīkī verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
- tarahae verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Polish
2 entries- posprzeczać się verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
- sprzeczać się verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Portuguese
1 entries- rixar verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Russian
3 entries- стычка noun (skirmish)
- переругиваться verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
- препираться verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Spanish
1 entries- discutir verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Swedish
4 entries- gnabbas verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
- kivas verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
- käbbla verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
- munhuggas verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Welsh
1 entries- ymgecru verb (quarrel in a tiresome manner)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
Rather than focus on actual problems, they bicker among themselves, accusing each other of having beliefs that are insufficiently ideologically pure.
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They began to bicker.
Source: tatoeba (6606753)
A stoup of wine (for in those days it was served out from the cask in pewter flagons) was placed on the table, and each had his quaigh or bicker before him.
Source: tatoeba (7752239)
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