Meaning of Bicker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A skirmish; an encounter.
   countable
2. A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
   Scotland
3. A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
   Scotland, countable, obsolete
4. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
   countable, uncountable
5. The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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[…]”

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

“…the liquors were handed around in great fulness, the ale in large wooden bickers, and the brandy in capacious horns of oxen.”

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