Bickered vs Sickered - What's the difference?
bickered | sickered |
(bicker)
To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
* Barrow
To move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, of a flame)
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* 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.
(sicker)
(sick)
(obsolete, outside, dialects) certain
(obsolete, outside, dialects) secure
(obsolete, outside, dialects) certainly
(obsolete, outside, dialects) securely
(mining, UK, dialect) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between bickered and sickered
is that bickered is (bicker) while sickered is (sicker).bickered
English
Verb
(head)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)