单词 | pettifogulize |
释义 | pettiˈfogulize, v. nonce-wd. [f. pettifogger.] intr. To quibble. Hence pettiˈfogulizer.
1853De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. I. 59 So far from seeking to ‘pettifogulise’—i.e. to find evasions for any purpose in a trickster's minute tortuosities of construction. Ibid. 60, I showed so much scrupulosity about the exact value and position of his words, as finally to draw upon myself the vexatious reproach of being habitually a ‘pettifoguliser’. 1872W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. i. i. 77 This ‘petti⁓fogulising’. |

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