bicker

bicker · verb, noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
2. Proto-Germanic*bikjaną
3. Proto-West Germanic*bikkjan
4. Old Dutch*bikken
5. Middle Dutchbicken
6. Middle Englishbikeren
7. English todaybicker

From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Old Dutch *bikken, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan, from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”). See also Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”); compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”).

bicker · noun²

1. Middle English · derived frombiker
2. Scots · derived frombicker
3. English todaybicker

From Scots bicker, from Middle English biker. Doublet of beaker.

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