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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Quibble  \Quib"ble\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Quibbled};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Quibbling}.] 
  1.  To  evade  the  point  in  question  by  artifice,  play  upon 
  words  caviling,  or  by  raising  any  insignificant  or 
  impertinent  question  or  point;  to  trifle  in  argument  or 
  discourse;  to  equivocate. 
 
  2.  To  pun;  to  practice  punning.  --Cudworth. 
 
  Syn:  To  cavil;  shuffle;  equivocate;  trifle. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  quibbling 
  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},  {pettifogging}] 




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