to get (someone) into an argument · to quibble, squabble (to complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner)
çekim: geçmiş chicané · ortaç chicané · şimdiki chicane · ulaç chicanant
eş: pinailler, chicailler, coltailler
köken: Inherited from Middle French chicaner, from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan (“to order, arrange”), the selfsame origin of modern French chic.
From gritteln (“to irritate, bicker, rebuke, nitpick”, 17th c.), which is plausibly an iterative form of Middle Low German gretten (“to anger, irritate”). Compare Dutch greten (“to irritate, mock, laugh at”). These are cognate with Middle High German graz (“rage”). Variants with k- occur also in Dutch and Low German. They were reinforced, however, through influence of Kritik (“criticism”),…