Bicker vs Polemic - What's the difference?
bicker | polemic |
To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
* Barrow
To move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, of a flame)
*XIX cent,
* Thomson
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
* Holland
A skirmish; an encounter.
(Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
A person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.
An argument or controversy.
(senseid)A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
As nouns the difference between bicker and polemic
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 polemic is a person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.As a verb bicker
is to quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.As an adjective polemic is
having the characteristics of a polemic.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)- They bickered about dinner every evening.
- petty things about which men cark and bicker
- I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley.
- They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade.
- Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.
Derived terms
*bickererSynonyms
* wrangle * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- (Jamieson)
