Bicker vs Discuss - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between bicker and discuss

is that bicker is to quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner while discuss is to drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.

As a noun bicker

is a skirmish; an encounter.

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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discuss
English
(wikipedia discuss)
Verb

(obsolete) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.i:

For she was giuen all to fleshly lust, / And poured forth in sensuall delight, / That all regard of shame she had discust , / And meet respect of honour put to flight

* Rambler

a pomade of virtue to discuss pimples

* Sir H. Wotton

Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection.

To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.

Let's sit down and discuss this rationally.

I don't wish to discuss this further. Let's talk about something else.

(obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).

* , Merry Wives of Windsor , act 1, sc. 3:

Nym : I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.

* , Henry V , act 4, sc. 1:

Pistol : Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?

To break to pieces; to shatter.

To deal with, in eating or drinking.

* Sir S. Baker

We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.

To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.

Synonyms
* (converse about a topic) betalk, debate, talk about
Derived terms
* discussant * discusser * discussion * discuss to death * discuss Uganda
See also
* argue
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