英语词汇“quibbling”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

quibbling

释义

quibble /kwibˈl/

noun

An evasive turning away from the point in question to something irrelevant, merely verbal, trivial or insignificant
A petty complaint or observation
A pun, play on words

intransitive verb

To raise petty or irrelevant objections
To argue over unimportant details
To pun or evade the issue by punning

ORIGIN: Perh dimin of obs quib quibble, which may be from L quibus, dative or ablative pl of quī who, a word frequent in legal use; or a variant of quip

quibbˈler noun

quibbˈling noun and adjective

quibbˈlingly adverb

quibˈlin noun (obsolete)

A quibble

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