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^[1]:

     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.

   • 2023 May 12, Pjotr Sauer, “Russian troops fall back to ‘defensive positions’ near Bakhmut”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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”.

Translations

petty quarreling

• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kiistely (fi), kinastelu (fi)
• French: chamaillerie (fr) f
• German: Gezanke n
• Hungarian: veszekedés (hu), civódás (hu), pörlekedés (hu)
• Icelandic: nagg n
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: перебранка (ru) (perebranka)
• Spanish: riña (es) f
• Swedish: käbbel (sv) n
• Tocharian B: śalna

Verb

bickering

1. present participle and gerund of bicker

Translations

present participle of bicker

• Dutch: gekrakeel (nl) n
• Swedish: käbbla (sv)