bickerment

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noun

Argument, bickering.

OriginEnglish bicker ← Middle English bikeren ← Middle Dutch bicken →
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Meanings

nounbickerment (countable and uncountable, plural bickerments)

plural bickerments

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableArgument, bickering.

    Artegall, arriving happily, / Did stay a while their greedy bickerment, / Till he had questioned the cause of their dissent.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  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. Englishbickerment

From bicker + -ment.

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Chicago

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