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pettifogging |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pettifogging \Pet"ti*fog`ging\, a. Paltry; quibbling; mean From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pettifogging \Pet"ti*fog`ging\, n. Pettifoggery. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pettifog \Pet"ti*fog\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pettifogged}; p. pr & vb n. {Pettifogging}.] [Petty + fog to pettifog.] To do a petty business as a lawyer; also to do law business in a petty or tricky way ``He takes no money, but pettifogs gratis.'' --S. Butler. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pettifogging adj : quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics" [syn: {caviling}, {carping}, {nitpicking}, {quibbling}]
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