单词 | quibbler |
释义 | quibblern. A person who makes or uses quibbles. Now chiefly: one who makes or is given to making trivial objections or criticisms. Cf. quibble n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > [noun] > practitioner of quibblea1627 quibblera1680 punster1699 pettifogulizer1851 a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) 148 Ianglers & bosters,..stronge lyers, foderes, whybelers. 1604 G. Babington Comf. Notes: Exod. i. (Exod.) ii. 25 Whiblers and pratling pick-thanks, tatlers, and tale-tellars. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 206 A Quibbler is a Jugler of Words, that shows Tricks with them, to make them..serve two Senses at once. 1737 W. Law Demonstr. Errors Late Bk. 228 If your Heart is shut up in Death and Dryness, your Reason will be..a poor Quibbler in Words, and dead Images. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 27 July 2/1 Any quibbler can rail; and when that raillery extends to deprecate virtuous principle, the author deserves our pity. 1883 Law Times 27 Oct. 231/2 A race of astute quibblers, and not a body of scientific lawyers. 1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood vii. 243 He..called me a contumacious quibbler too fond of disputation. 1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time iv. 145 He dashed off a thirty page letter to Judd, calling him an uncivil, wretched quibbler. 2006 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Apr. 12 Of course, there will be quibblers who would deny the former Labour spin-doctor..his ten grand a month. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1525 |
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