Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bickering

/bˈɪkɚɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English

Syllables: bick-er-ing
IPA: /bˈɪkɚɪŋ/

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That bickers; argumentative.

noun

Petty quarreling.

verb

present participle and gerund of bicker

Example Sentences

"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."
"By this time the two companies were beginning to realise that the continual bickering was not doing either of them much good, and the L.Y.R. (like many others) was becoming tired of the dominance of Euston."
"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."
"Ukrainian intelligence said on Friday that Prigozhin’s public bickering with the army leadership confirmed “their fear of responsibility for the inevitable geopolitical defeat of Moscow”."

Inflected Forms

more bickering (comparative) most bickering (superlative) bickerings (plural)

Derived Forms

bickeringly unbickering

Synonyms

bicker spat tiff squabble pettifoggery fuss

Rhymes With

pickering flickering snickering chickering dickering

Questions

How do you pronounce bickering?: The recorded pronunciation is /bˈɪkɚɪŋ/.
What does bickering mean?: That bickers; argumentative.

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