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Bickers

To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.

📖 Definitions of "Bickers"

verb

1
To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
"They bickered about dinner every evening."
2
To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
3
(of rain) To patter.
4
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
squabblenoun	A minor fight or argument.
tiffnoun	A (generally small) argument or disagreement; a petty quarrel, a spat.
brabblenoun	(dated) A brawl, or commotion.
pettifogverb	(intransitive) To quibble over trivial matters; nitpick.
quibblenoun	An argument or objection based on an ambiguity of wording or similar trivial circumstance; a minor complaint.
nigglenoun	A minor complaint or problem.
fussnoun	(countable or uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.
spatnoun	A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
dithersnoun	(slang) The creeps; a feeling of fear or anxiety.
whinesnoun	A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
fussesnoun	(countable or uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.
mopesnoun	an informal expression for a mildly depressed state
muttersnoun	a municipality in the Innsbruck-Land district in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
squabblingnoun	A petty argument or conflict.
tinkersnoun	a 2009 first novel by American author Paul Harding.
sulksnoun	A state of sulking.
flirtsnoun	An act of flirting.
badmouthsnoun	—
fulminatesnoun	(chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
fiddlesnoun	A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).

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