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Bicker vs Audible - What's the difference?

bicker | audible |

As verbs the difference between bicker and audible

is that bicker is to quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner while audible is (american football) to change the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.

As nouns the difference between bicker and audible

is that bicker is a skirmish; an encounter or bicker can be a small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub while audible is (american football) the act of or an instance of changing the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.

As an adjective audible is

able to be heard.

bicker

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) bikeren ‘to attack’, from (etyl) bicken ‘to stab, attack’ (modern bikken ‘to hack’), from (etyl) ‘to smash, break’.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
    • They bickered about dinner every evening.
  • * Barrow
    • petty things about which men cark and bicker
  • To move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, of a flame)
  • *XIX cent,
    • I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley.
  • * Thomson
    • They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade.
  • To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
  • * Holland
    • Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.
    Derived terms
    *bickerer
    Synonyms
    * wrangle * See also

    Noun

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

    • Etymology 2

    See beaker.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    audible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be heard.
  • * 1883 , :
    • "Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper, that was no more than audible

    Synonyms

    * sounded * vocal

    Antonyms

    * inaudible * quiet * silent

    Derived terms

    () * audibly * audibility

    Related terms

    () * audio * auditory

    Verb

    (audibl)
  • (American football) To change the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.
    • The quarterback audibled after seeing the defensive formation.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (American football) The act of or an instance of changing the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.
    • The audible changed the play to a run.
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