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The word “bicker” comes from the Middle Dutch, meaning to slash, stab or attack, but a Middle English history of the word suggests it meant “to quarrel, petulantly contend with words,” shifting later to mean “a noisy, repeated clatter.”

Piecing together different parts of the word from Middle Dutch and German, he argues in his book that “Rumpelstiltskin means a crumpled stalk” — that is, it was meant to be a derisive reference to a male body part.

The original term derived in the late 1600s from the middle Dutch word “hutselen,” a verb meaning to “shake things up.”

At the Middle Dutch Church they pulled out the pulpit, the pews, and the floorboards and let the horses of the Light Dragoons practice.

The ancient home of the Middle Dutch Reformed had also gone for secular purposes.