1832 N. Webster (at cited word) Quiddler.
1842–4 H. D. Thoreau (1984) II. 77 Drummond was indeed a quiddler—with little fire or fibre—and rather a taste for poetry than a taste of it.
1871 N. Nutgall 41 It is perfectly maddening to realise what a lot of pre-eminent quiddlers we are. Never was there a people so imposingly great for the absolute magnitude of its littleness.