badinage vs bicker

badinage

verb
  • To engage in badinage or playful banter. 

noun
  • Playful raillery; banter. 

bicker

verb
  • To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.) 

  • To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner. 

  • To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. 

  • To patter. 

noun
  • A skirmish; an encounter. 

  • The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members. 

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

  • A wooden drinking-cup or other dish. 

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