单词	bicker
释义	bickerbick‧er /ˈbɪkə $ -ər/ verb [intransitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINbicker Origin: 1200-1300 Middle Dutch bicken ‘to attack’ Verb Table VERB TABLE bicker Simple Form Present I, you, we, they bicker he, she, it bickers Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they bickered Present perfect I, you, we, they have bickered he, she, it has bickered Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had bickered Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will bicker Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have bickered Continuous Form Present I am bickering he, she, it is bickering you, we, they are bickering Past I, he, she, it was bickering you, we, they were bickering Present perfect I, you, we, they have been bickering he, she, it has been bickering Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been bickering Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be bickering Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been bickering Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The mayor and the town council spent most of Thursday bickering over how to balance next year's budget. Whenever we go shopping together we always start bickering. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Another nine were voted out over Democratic objections and with partisan bickering. As they began bickering about how to interpret his behavior. But Davidson thinks the message from voters last fall indicates that lawmakers should act, not bicker. Nor did divisions and bickering between Protestants lend prestige to their faith. Since she got here, everyone's been bickering. The Democrats, now smugly confident, may start to bicker among themselves. What Grimma was thinking was: they're not bickering. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto argue about something very unimportant► squabble to argue noisily about something that is not really important -- use this especially about children or when you think someone is behaving like a child: · Oh, for goodness sake, stop squabbling, you two!squabble about/over: · The kids always squabble about who should do the dishes. ► bicker to continually argue about something unimportant in a way that annoys other people: · Whenever we go shopping together we always start bickering.bicker about/over: · The mayor and the town council spent most of Thursday bickering over how to balance next year's budget. ► quibble to argue in an annoying way about unimportant details, especially about whether something is exactly correct: · She said I owed her twenty dollars. I thought it was twenty-five but I wasn't going to quibble.quibble over: · Why quibble over whose turn it is to buy lunch? Split it, and forget about it. ► split hairs to say that there is a difference between two things and argue about this, when really the difference is too small to be important: · Batard is a little sweeter than Chevalier but perhaps that's splitting hairs; both these wines are excellent. to argue, especially about something very unimportant:  I wish you two would stop bickering.bicker about/over They kept bickering over who should answer the phone.—bickering noun [uncountable]
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