English Dictionary

bicker

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbɪkɚ/

名詞

スコットランド英語 廃用

A skirmish; an encounter. / (Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys. / A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.

日本語の意味

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

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

夜明けに二つの偵察隊の間で短い小競り合いが起きた。

意味（1）

A skirmish; an encounter.

意味（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[…]

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

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

Bicker process varies by club, and there are often concerns of the rights of female students during bicker […]

bickers （ plural ）