"Quibbling" is a word in ENGLISH

A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.

To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; …

One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.

The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles.

Paltry; quibbling; mean.

To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.

To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with …

The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the …

To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas …

A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of …

To pun; to practice punning.

A pun; a low conceit.

A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question …

A cavilling or verbal ohjec-tion. A sllght difllculty raised without ne-cesslty or propriety

of Quibble

One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.

Triflingly; evasively.

A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.

Subtilty; nicety; quibble.