BICKERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bickering mean? 

• BICKERING (noun)
  The noun BICKERING has 1 sense:

1. a quarrel about petty points

  Familiarity information: BICKERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BICKERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quarrel about petty points

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bicker; bickering; fuss; pettifoggery; spat; squabble; tiff

Hypernyms ("bickering" is a kind of...):

dustup; quarrel; row; run-in; words; wrangle (an angry dispute)

 Context examples 

There was continual bickering and jangling.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Alas! it was my ill fate to slay him in a bickering which broke out in a field near the township of Tarbes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And there were the dogs, ever squabbling and bickering, bursting into uproars and creating confusions.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There was no grumbling, no bickering, nor petty quarrelling in the little cabin, and they often congratulated one another on the general happiness of the party.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

We had sight of two rover galleys, and even came to have some slight bickering with them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With full stomachs, bickering and quarrelling began among the younger males, and this continued through the few days that followed before the breaking-up of the pack.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“By St. Paul!” he cried, “I have fought in many a little bickering, but never one that I would be more loth to have missed than this. But you are wounded, Alleyne?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After the first rush, each time, his snarl kept the three dogs at a distance but they trailed along behind, yelping and bickering and insulting him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Not I, in troth,” replied the other; “I have had other things to think of. There was some sort of bickering over dice, or wine, or was it a woman, coz?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have also seen some bickering and scuffling.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)