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February 20, 2005, 20:22
Caterwauller
Bickering
How did this work come to mean quarrelling? Is it onomatopoeic?


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February 20, 2005, 21:16
jerry thomas
bicker

1297, "a skirmish, fight," bikern, probably from M.Du. bicken "to slash, stab, attack," + -er, M.E. frequentative suffix. Meaning "quarrel" is from 1330.