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Bickers vs Nickers - What's the difference?

bickers | nickers |

As verbs the difference between bickers and nickers

is that bickers is third-person singular of bicker while nickers is third-person singular of nicker.

bickers

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bicker)

    • 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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    nickers

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nicker)

    • Anagrams

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    nicker

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (nicker)
  • (British, slang) Pound sterling.
    • This coat cost me 50 nicker .
    Synonyms
    * (pound sterling) pound (standard), pound sterling (standard), quid (slang), sov (slang)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
    • Synonyms
    * neigh * whinny

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, slang) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
    • (Arbuthnot)
  • The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.