Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bicker \Bick"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bickered}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Bickering}.] [OE. bikeren, perh. fr. Celtic; cf. W. bicra
   to fight, bicker, bicre conflict, skirmish; perh. akin to E.
   beak.]
   1. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.]

            Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.
                                                  --Holland.

   2. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.

            Petty things about which men cark and bicker.
                                                  --Barrow.

   3. To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise;
      to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.

            They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade.
                                                  --Thomson.

Bickering \Bick"er*ing\, n.
   1. A skirmishing. ``Frays and bickerings.'' --Milton.

   2. Altercation; wrangling.

Source : WordNet®

bickering
     n : a quarrel about petty points [syn: {bicker}, {spat}, {tiff},
          {squabble}, {pettifoggery}, {fuss}]