Kicker vs Bicker - What's the difference?
kicker | bicker |
One who kicks.
(sports) One who takes kicks.
(nautical) The kicking strap.
(nautical, informal) An outboard motor.
(colloquial) An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant.
(finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
(poker) An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
(slang, Southern US) A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes and/or philosophy.
(journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
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.
As nouns the difference between kicker and bicker
is that kicker is one who kicks while bicker is a skirmish; an encounter.As a verb bicker is
to quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.kicker
English
Noun
(en noun)- John wants to climb the wall, but the kicker is that it is thirty feet tall.
- Tuition is free; the kicker is that mandatory room and board costs twice as much as at other colleges.
- Jill's hand was two pair, aces and sevens, with a king kicker .
Derived terms
* knee kickerAnagrams
* ----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)