bicker

FREQ #32344 ★☆☆☆☆

vi. 斗嘴, 潺潺而流, 闪动 n. 口角, 流水声

发音

US /ˈbɪkɚ/
其它
UK /ˈbɪkə/

词形变化

bickers 复数 bickered bickering bickers 三单 bickers bickering 现在分词 bickered 过去式 bickered 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A skirmish; an encounter.

    冲突

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A fight with stones between two parties of boys.

    苏格兰 可数 废旧 不可数
  3. 3.

    A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.

    可数 不可数
  5. 1.

    A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.

    苏格兰
v.
  1. 1.

    To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.

    斗嘴

    They bickered about dinner every evening.

  2. 2.

    To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)

  3. 3.

    To patter.

  4. 4.

    To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

fuss spat bickering tiff squabble pettifoggery

上位词 6

words row quarrel run-in wrangle dustup
动词

同义词 5

squabble quibble brabble niggle pettifog

上位词 4

argue fence debate contend

相关短语

bicker like a married couple bicker like an old married couple

词源

From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Old Dutch *bikken, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan, from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”). See also Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”); compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”).

来源：wiktionary