Bicker

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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