- bickering (n.)
[bickering 词源字典]
- c. 1300, "a skirmish," from bicker (v.). Meaning "a verbal wrangle" is from 1570s.[bickering etymology, bickering origin, 英语词源]
- bickering (adj.)
- 1808 in the sense of "contentious," present participle adjective from bicker (v.). Earlier it was used to mean "flashing, quivering" (1660s).