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BICKERED

Definition: BICKERED

BICKERED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Bicker

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BICKERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

 

Usage Frequency: BICKERED

"BICKERED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BICKERED" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BICKERED

Language Translations for "BICKERED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

吵嘴 (Bicker, Bickering). (various references)

   

French

  

picotés, picotées, picotée, picoté, picotèrent. (various references)

   

German

  

zankte (brawled, quarrelled, scolded), gezankt (squabbled). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ickeredbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: BICKERED

Misspellings

"BICKERED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bickie, bucklered, Buskerud. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BICKERED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BICKERED" (pronounced bi"kerd)
4-i" k er ddickered, flickered, snickered.
3-k er danchored, brokered, checkered, conquered, drunkard, euchred, hunkered, lacquered, massacred, placard, reconquered, snookered, suckered, tankard, tinkered.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BICKERED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-i-k-r"

-1 letter: bricked.

-2 letters: becked, bedeck, bicker, decker, deicer, dicker, kerbed, rebeck, recked, ricked.

-3 letters: bider, biked, biker, brede, breed, brick, bride, cebid, ceder, cered, cider, creed, creek, cried, deice, dicer, diker, dreck, eider, icker, irked, rebec, rebid, riced.

-4 letters: beck, beer, bice, bide, bier, bike, bird, birk, bred, bree, brie, cede, cedi, cere, cire, crib.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BICKERED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 49 43 4B 45 52 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..    -.-.    -.-    .    .-.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010010 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#82 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0043 004B 0045 0052 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3643374539523938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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