bickering

bickering

English

Noun

bickering (plural bickerings)

1. Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.
   • 1820, in Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, By William Coxe, Ch.40 heading.

     Meeting of Parliament. — Choice of a whig Speaker. — Speech from the throne. — Parliamentary proceedings, and party bickerings.

   • 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎:

     After Evra was also shown a yellow card following a prolonged bout of bickering which also involved Suarez, Ferguson decided on a double change by replacing Park Ji-sung and Ashley Young with Nani and Rooney.

Translations

petty quarreling

Finnish: kiistely (fi), kinastelu (fi) French: chamaillerie (fr) f Hungarian: veszekedés (hu), civódás (hu), pörlekedés (hu)

Russian: перебранка (ru) (perebranka) Spanish: riña (es) f Swedish: käbbel (sv) n

Verb

bickering

1. present participle of bicker

Translations

present participle of bicker

Dutch: gekrakeel (nl) n

Swedish: käbbla (sv)