bicker

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel; squabble. See Synonyms at argue.
2. v. To flicker; quiver: "and bicker like a flame” ( Robert Browning).
3. n. A petty quarrel; a squabble.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To exchange blows; skirmish; fight off and on: said particularly of the skirmishing of archers and slingers.
2. To quarrel; contend in words; engage in petulant altercation; wrangle.
3. Hence —3. To make a brawling sound; make any repeated noisy action; clatter.
4. To run rapidly; move quickly; quiver; be tremulous, like flame or water.
5. To make a short rapid run.
6. To strike repeatedly.
7. n. A fight, especially a confused fight.
8. n. A quarrel; an angry dispute; an altercation.
9. n. A confused or rapid succession of sounds; a rattling or clattering noise.
10. n. A short rapid run or race; a staggering run, as from loss of equilibrium.
11. n. A bowl or dish for containing liquor, properly one made of wood; a drinking-cup; also, specifically, in many parts of Scotland, a wooden dish made of staves and hoops, like a tub, for holding food.

Wiktionary

1. v. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
2. v. To move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, of a flame)
3. n. A skirmish; an encounter.
4. n. Scotland, obsolete A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
5. n. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Prov. Eng. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
2. v. obsolete To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
3. v. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
4. v. To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.
5. n. obsolete A skirmish; an encounter.
6. n. Scot. A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
7. n. A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. argue over petty things
2. n. a quarrel about petty points