|  bickering 
 
 a quarrel about petty points (Freq. 1)
 • Syn:
 bicker, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss
 • Derivationally related forms:
 fussy (for: fuss), pettifog (for: pettifoggery), squabble (for: squabble), spat (for: spat), bicker (for: bicker)
 • Hypernyms:
 quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup
 
 
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