(n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
(v. i.) To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
(v. i.) To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
(v. i.) To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.
(n.) A skirmish; an encounter.
(n.) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
(n.) A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.
Example Sentences:
(1) When she is bickering with Bleeker about the conception, and it looks as though he is going to have the last word by telling her that he has kept her knickers as a memento, she, without missing a beat, says, "I still have your virginity."
(2) The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) yesterday urged diplomats to stop bickering about a mini package of liberalisation designed to boost global commerce and warned of serious damage to the 20-year-old institution if last-ditch talks failed.
(3) "We wanted a backdrop of global espionage, and then the goal was to ignore it as much as possible to focus on people bickering," Reed explains.
(4) Over the Atlantic, as politicians bicker over the debt-reduction programme, Moody's has said the US's top-notch credit rating is under review.
(5) From upstairs comes the reassuring sound of children bickering.
(6) It could not be more fortunate for employers, the ease with which we can be set to bickering among ourselves.
(7) An unlikely coalition of sworn enemies, who had campaigned together under the Better Together slogan of “No Thanks”, came to a juddering and messy end as the UK parties bickered over future voting rights of MPs at Westminster.
(8) Which makes me wonder if the Dutch (my people btw) will succumb to the bickering and discontent of their recent Euro outing on the first sign of trouble.
(9) After observing a couple of weeks of bickering over who would get what time, we threatened to remove them again, whereupon the boys negotiated with each other and came up with an equitable time-sharing agreement.
(10) The ensuing months of uncertainty and bickering have not always gone down well with voters .
(11) On one question, at least, the bickering candidates in Wednesday’s Republican debate did agree: it was a juvenile way to pick a president.
(12) A single example, plucked at random from a lifetime's supply: years ago, after I'd been bickering with a friend who was visiting my flat in London, she fell silent for several minutes and then, pointing to my wooden floors, observed, "You know that floor's laminate, don't you?"
(13) Incrementally, forwards and backwards, prevaricating, bickering: so it has been for three years of European troubles that began on the periphery, in Greece, but have spread to the heartland, condemning Europe to a lost decade.
(14) In delivering his inflammatory speech, the president was defying Khamenei who a few weeks ago warned officials against bickering, saying those who bring disputes to public attention are "betraying" the revolution.
(15) Open Mon-Wed 12.30pm-1am, Thurs-Sat 12.30pm-1.30am, closed Sundays Bar The Clinic Facebook Twitter Pinterest Owned by Chile’s top satirical magazine, The Clinic , and covered in its political cartoons, this infamous bar is where the intelligentsia comes to bicker over beers.
(16) Amid the bickering, there was also a sense that Kerry's visit may indicate a failure of Afghanistan's fledgling democratic process.
(17) Mohamed El-Erian , chief executive of Pimco: For the sake of their country and the wider global economy, both parties should resist the urge to begin bickering.
(18) She also added her voice to the welter of criticism over the bickering performance of the BBC's top brass – current and former – in front of the Commons public accounts committee on Monday.
(19) … You’re going to get what I think, whether you like it or not, whether it makes you cringe every once in a while or not.” Decrying “bickering leaders in Washington DC”, Christie held out his record as a fiscally conservative governor with a record early in his tenure of bipartisan victories as evidence of change he could bring to the national capital.
(20) Noah’s presence should an international flavour to the show, hopefully breaking it out of its obsession with the 24-hour news channels and petty Washington bickering.
Dicker
Definition:
(n.) The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.
(n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker.
(v. i. & t.) To negotiate a dicker; to barter.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think I’m just one of those kinds of people.” Selina Dicker, a 38-year-old from London who works in property finance, is a little bit different in that she’s the group’s only woman.
(2) Richard Dicker, head of international justice at Human Rights Watch in New York, said Libya's actions over the two suspects would be the litmus test of its commitment to democracy and the rule of law.
(3) It is a legal avenue open to states with those laws on their books and the political will,” Dicker said.
(4) They have the first bite of the apple,” said Richard Dicker, the director of Human Rights Watch’s international justice programme.
(5) The first was a teenage boy caught foraging for stale bread in an empty compound whose constantly shifting story suggested to the British that he might have been an insurgent sympathiser or even a "dicker" – a watchman providing a steady stream of intelligence on the movements of foreign forces.
(6) It’s because they don’t have the same language skills or cultural understanding or as much experience.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest From left, David Hamilton, Jagged Globe’s Everest leader, with clients Dan Fredinburg, Michele Battelli and Selina Dicker.
(7) "Moscow and Beijing can veto a resolution but they can't suppress the desire for justice by the Syrian people and the dozens of governments that stood for their rights," said Richard Dicker, international justice director at Human Rights Watch.