bickering
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bickering (comparative more bickering, superlative most bickering)
- That bickers; argumentative.
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]bickering (plural bickerings)
- Petty quarreling.
- 1820, in Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, By William Coxe, Ch.40 heading.
- Meeting of Parliament. — Choice of a whig Speaker. — Speech from the throne. — Parliamentary proceedings, and party bickerings.
- 1957 October, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 726:
- By this time the two companies were beginning to realise that the continual bickering was not doing either of them much good, and the L.Y.R. (like many others) was becoming tired of the dominance of Euston.
- 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport[1], archived from the original on 29 January 2012:
- After Evra was also shown a yellow card following a prolonged bout of bickering which also involved Suarez, Ferguson decided on a double change by replacing Park Ji-sung and Ashley Young with Nani and Rooney.
- 2023 May 12, Pjotr Sauer, “Russian troops fall back to ‘defensive positions’ near Bakhmut”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- Ukrainian intelligence said on Friday that Prigozhin’s public bickering with the army leadership confirmed “their fear of responsibility for the inevitable geopolitical defeat of Moscow”.
- 1820, in Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, By William Coxe, Ch.40 heading.
Usage notes
[edit]- Usually considered a childish behavior, although it is often applied to adults.
Translations
[edit]petty quarreling
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Verb
[edit]bickering
- present participle and gerund of bicker