bicker
意味
- (特に,ささいなことについて人と)けんかする,口論する《+about(over)+名+with+名〈人〉》
例文
Would the two of you quit bickering?
二人ともくだらない喧嘩はやめろよ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Old Dutch *bikken, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan, from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”). See also Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”); compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”).