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Variant of quibble

noun

Obsolete a play on words; pun
an evasion of the main point as by emphasizing some petty detail; cavil
a petty objection or criticism

intransitive verb quibbled, quibbling

to evade the truth of a point under discussion by caviling; resort to a quibble

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quibbler noun

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