intransitive verb. To engage in a bad-tempered quarrel, often in a petty manner over something trivial; squabble. synonym: argue.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To flicker or glitter.

intransitive verb. To move or flow with a rippling or gurgling sound.

noun. An angry quarrel; a squabble.

To exchange blows; skirmish; fight off and on: said particularly of the skirmishing of archers and slingers.

To quarrel; contend in words; engage in petulant altercation; wrangle.

Hence —3. To make a brawling sound; make any repeated noisy action; clatter.

To run rapidly; move quickly; quiver; be tremulous, like flame or water.

To make a short rapid run.

To strike repeatedly.

noun. A fight, especially a confused fight.

noun. A quarrel; an angry dispute; an altercation.

noun. A confused or rapid succession of sounds; a rattling or clattering noise.

noun. A short rapid run or race; a staggering run, as from loss of equilibrium.

noun. A bowl or dish for containing liquor, properly one made of wood; a drinking-cup; also, specifically, in many parts of Scotland, a wooden dish made of staves and hoops, like a tub, for holding food.

noun. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

noun. A skirmish; an encounter.

noun. A fight with stones between two parties of boys.

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

intransitive verb. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

intransitive verb. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.

intransitive verb. To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.

verb. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.

verb. To move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, of a flame)

noun. A skirmish; an encounter.

noun. A fight with stones between two parties of boys.

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

verb. argue over petty things

noun. a quarrel about petty points

"After a season spent clamoring at the door for admission like the rest of the rabble, Kennedy, a svelte, self-assured African-American sophomore with straight, shoulder-length hair and a fondness for cable-knit sweaters, had recently emerged from Ivy's Darwinian "bicker" process — a prim rendition of rush — as one of the chosen few: a member of the club."

argue  contend  debate  dustup  fence  

bricker  clicker  dicker  flicker  kicker  

acrimony  animosity  antagonism  bloodshed  brawl  

altercate  argue  argufy  around the bush  bandy words  

bickered  bickering  bickers