- 1拌嘴、為小事吵
When people bicker, they argue — but the matter is small, and they often keep at it. Whose turn it is to wash up. Whether the window should be open. Who left a cup in the sink. The words can be sharp, but you would not call the police; you would roll your eyes. Couples bicker. Brothers and sisters bicker. Two countries at war do not bicker: that word would make the fight sound too tiny. It is a little , a little old-fashioned in tone, but still very much alive when you talk about family life. You will mostly meet the verb. There is a noun too ('a bicker'), though the -ing form bickering is the usual name for the noise itself. Though actually the older meaning was closer to 'attack' or 'stab' — little repeated jabs — and the word has into this pecking with words.
組成It does not split in a way English speakers still feel. From Middle English bikeren, 'to attack', from Middle Dutch bicken ('to stab, thrust, attack') plus a suffix -er that meant 'keep doing it'. Further back it belongs to a very old root *bʰeg-, 'to smash, break'.
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Bickername
- 1
A surname.
bickerverb詞源 1/ˈbɪkɚ/
- 1
To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
- They bickered about dinner every evening.
- petty things about which men cark and bicker
- 2
To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
- Mean time unnumber'd glittering Streamlets play'd, / And hurled every-where their Waters ſheen; / That, as they bicker'd through the ſunny Glade, / Though reſtleſs ſtill themſelves, a lulling Murmur made.
- I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley.
- 3
To patter.
- 4
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
- And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, tvvo Ægles had a conflict and bickered together in all their fights: and vvhen the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third came at the very inſtant from the ſunne riſing and chaſed the Victreſſe avvay.
bickernoun詞源 1/ˈbɪkɚ/
- 1
A skirmish; an encounter.
- 2
obsoleteA 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[…]
- 3
A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
- 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 […]
bickernoun詞源 2/ˈbɪkɚ/
- 1
A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
- …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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