bicker

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈbɪkɚ/

Noun

Scotland obsolete

Japanese Meaning

小競り合い（短時間・軽微な喧嘩） / 遭遇（偶然の出会い） / （スコットランドの古語）石を使った少年たちの喧嘩 / 口論、怒りに満ちた騒々しい争い

What is this buttons?

A brief bicker broke out between the two scouting parties at dawn.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

夜明けに二つの偵察隊の間で短い小競り合いが起きた。

Details

Sense（1）

A skirmish; an encounter.

Sense（2）

(Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.

Even if he did not take part in the fighting himself, he was no doubt familiar with those who had been taught, ass Darsie Latimer was by Alan Fairford, to "smoke a cobbler, spin a lozen, head a bicker, and hold the bannets" - in other words, to break a window, head a skirmish with stones, and hold the bonnet[…]

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