verb/ʃi.ka.ne/
to get (someone) into an argument; to quibble, squabble (to complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner)
“C'est inutile de se chicaner.” — It's pointless to squabble.
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.