Bicker vs Disagree - What's the difference?
bicker | disagree | Synonyms |
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.
To not agree (harmonize).
To not agree .
To not agree (suit).
Bicker is a synonym of disagree.
As verbs the difference between bicker and disagree
is that bicker is to quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner while disagree is to not agree (harmonize).As a noun bicker
is a skirmish; an encounter or bicker can be a small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.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)
Etymology 2
See beaker.External links
* *disagree
English
Verb
(d)- John disagreed with Mary frequently.
- (informal usage) I disagree that this will work.
- My results consistently disagree with yours!
- A burrito disagreed with me.