noun

1. A skirmish; an encounter.

2. A fight with stones between two parties of boys.

3. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.

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.

Synonyms: wrangle