Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - quibble
Quibble
quibble
n. & v. --n. 1 a petty objection; a trivial point of criticism. 2 a play on words; a pun. 3 an evasion; an insubstantial argument which relies on an ambiguity etc. --v.intr. use quibbles. Derivatives quibbler n. quibbling adj. quibblingly adv. Etymology: dimin. of obs. quib prob. f. L quibus dative & ablat. pl. of qui who (familiar from use in legal documents)
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I. verb (~d; quibbling) Date: 1656 intransitive verb to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words, 2. cavil, carp, bicker, transitive verb to subject to ~s, ~r noun II. noun Etymology: probably diminutive of obsolete quib ~ Date: 1664 an evasion of or shift from the point, a minor objection or criticism ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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