Scrimmage vs Bicker - What's the difference?
scrimmage | bicker |
A rough fight.
* 1919 ,
*:There was an instant of complete silence, but when Tough Bill threw himself on Strickland the lust of battle seized them all, and in a moment there was a confused scrimmage . Tables were overturned, glasses crashed to the ground.
(label) In some team sports, especially soccer, a practice game which does not count on a team's record.
In American football or Canadian football, a play that begins with a snap from the center while opposing teams are on either side of a line of scrimmage.
To have, or be involved in, a scrimmage.
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 scrimmage and bicker
is that scrimmage is a rough fight while bicker is a skirmish; an encounter.As verbs the difference between scrimmage and bicker
is that scrimmage is to have, or be involved in, a scrimmage while bicker is to quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.scrimmage
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(scrimmag)- We scrimmaged a few times and then settled into boring drills.
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)
