bicker vs percolate

bicker

noun
  • A wooden drinking-cup or other dish. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner. 

  • To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. 

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

  • To patter. 

percolate

noun
  • A liquid that has been percolated. 

verb
  • To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter. 

  • To make (coffee) in a percolator. 

  • To drain or seep through a porous substance. 

  • To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised. 

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