bickering

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Adjective

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bickering (comparative more bickering, superlative most bickering)

  1. That bickers; argumentative

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Noun

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bickering (plural bickerings)

  1. Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.
    • 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.
    • 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport[1]:
      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”.

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Verb

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bickering

  1. present participle and gerund of bicker

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