'bickering
World English Dictionary
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to argue over petty matters; squabble |
| 2. | poetic |
| a. (esp of a stream) to run quickly | |
| b. to flicker; glitter | |
| —n | |
| 3. | a petty squabble |
| [C13: of unknown origin] | |
| 'bickerer | |
| —n | |
| 'bickering | |
| —n, —adj | |
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'bickering
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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