bicker

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
2. to run rapidly; move quickly; rush; hurry: a stream bickering down the valley.
3. to flicker; glitter: The sun bickered through the trees.

noun

4. an angry, petty dispute or quarrel; contention.

noun Scot.

1. any wooden dish or bowl, especially a wooden porridge bowl.
2. Obsolete. a wooden drinking cup.

verb (intr)

1. to argue over petty matters; squabble
2. poetic
   1. (esp of a stream) to run quickly
   2. to flicker; glitter

noun

3. a petty squabble

v.

early 14c., bikere, “to skirmish, fight,” perhaps from Middle Dutch bicken “to slash, stab, attack,” + -er, Middle English frequentative suffix. Meaning “to quarrel” is from mid-15c. Related: Bickered; bickering.

n.

c.1300, skirmish, battle; from the same source as bicker (v.). In modern use, often to describe the sound of a flight of an arrow or other repeated, loud, rapid sounds, in which sense it is perhaps at least partly echoic.