Etymology

bickerer

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Today it means: One who bickers; one who engages in nagging or trivial arguing. Full definition →

English bicker ← Middle English bikeren ← Middle Dutch bicken
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The story

  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. Englishbicker
  8. English todaybickerer

From bicker + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.