bickerment

English

Etymology

From bicker +‎ -ment.

Noun

bickerment (countable and uncountable, plural bickerments)

1. (obsolete) Argument, bickering.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Artegall, arriving happily, / Did stay a while their greedy bickerment, / Till he had questioned the cause of their dissent.