Quibble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To evade the truth or importance of an issue by raising trivial distinctions and objections.
  • verb-intransitive. To find fault or criticize for petty reasons; cavil.
  • n. A petty distinction or an irrelevant objection.
  • n. Archaic A pun.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A trivial or minor complaint, objection or argument.
  • v. To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
  • n. A pun; a low conceit.
  • verb-intransitive. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To pun; to practice punning.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To trifle in argument or discourse; evade the point in question, or the plain truth, by artifice, play upon words, or any conceit; prevaricate.
  • To pun.
  • n. A start or turn from the point in question, or from plain truth; an evasion; a prevarication.
  • n. A pun; a trivial conceit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
  • v. argue over petty things
  • n. an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
  • Verb Form
    quibbled    quibbles    quibbling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    skirt    evade    hedge    parry    fudge    elude    duck    dodge    circumvent    sidestep   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    evasion    cavil    pun    shuffle    trifle    equivocate    prevaricate    prevarication   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sibyl    dibble    dribble    gribble    kibble    nibble    scribble    sibyl    tribble