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clash
English
Etymology
Onomatopoeic origin. Compare German klatschen (“to clap, smack, slap”) and Klatsch (“a clapping sound; the din resulting from two or more things colliding”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kla?/, /klæ?/
- (US) IPA(key): /klæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
clash (countable and uncountable, plural clashes)
- (onomatopoeia) A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects.
- I heard a clash from the kitchen, and rushed in to find the cat had knocked over some pots and pans.
- (military) A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
- (sports) a match; a game between two sides.
- An angry argument
- Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
- a clash of beliefs
- a personality clash
- A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
- She was wearing a horrible clash of red and orange.
- (hurling) An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession.
- (Scotland) Chatter; gossip; idle talk.
Translations
Verb
clash (third-person singular simple present clashes, present participle clashing, simple past and past participle clashed)
- (intransitive) To make a clashing sound.
- The cymbals clashed.
- (transitive) To cause to make a clashing sound.
- To come into violent conflict.
- Fans from opposing teams clashed on the streets after the game.
- (intransitive) To argue angrily.
- My parents often clashed about minor things, such as the cleaning or shopping rota.
- (intransitive, in games or sports) To face each other in an important game.
- (intransitive, of clothes, decor, colours) To fail to look good together; to contrast unattractively; to fail to harmonize.
- You can't wear that shirt! It clashes with your trousers.
- The hotel room was ugly, and the wallpaper clashed with the carpet.
- (intransitive, of events) To coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to attend all.
- I can't come to your wedding because it clashes with a friend's funeral.
- I wanted to take German, but it clashed with art on the timetable.
- (intransitive, Scotland) To chatter or gossip.
Translations
Related terms
- clashy
- electroclash
- soundclash
Anagrams
- chals
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bicker
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?k?/
- Rhymes: -?k?(r)
Etymology 1
From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) +? -er (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Germanic *bikjan? (compare Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eg- (“to smash, break”). Compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”).
Verb
bicker (third-person singular simple present bickers, present participle bickering, simple past and past participle bickered)
- To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars (sermon)
- petty things about which men cark and bicker
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars (sermon)
- To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
- 1886, The Brook, by Tennyson
- I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley.
- 1886, The Brook, by Tennyson
- (of rain) To patter.
- To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
- 1606, Philemon Holland, The Historie of Twelve Caesars
- Two egles had a conflict, and bickered together.
- 1606, Philemon Holland, The Historie of Twelve Caesars
Synonyms
- wrangle
- See also Thesaurus:squabble
Derived terms
- bickerer
Translations
Noun
bicker (plural bickers)
- A skirmish; an encounter.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
- A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
- The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.
- 2005, Alison Fraser, Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, College Prowler, Inc (?ISBN), page 41:
- Bicker process varies by club, and there are often concerns of the rights of female students during bicker […]
- 2005, Alison Fraser, Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, College Prowler, Inc (?ISBN), page 41:
Translations
Etymology 2
From Scots bicker, from Middle English biker. Doublet of beaker.
Noun
bicker (plural bickers)
- (Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 6:
- …the liquors were handed around in great fulness, the ale in large wooden bickers, and the brandy in capacious horns of oxen.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 6:
Further reading
- bicker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- bicker in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Bicker in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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