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- Quibble - n. - A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
- Quibble - n. - A pun; a low conceit.
- Quibble - v. i. - To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.
- Quibble - v. i. - To pun; to practice punning.
- Quibbled - imp. & p. p. - of Quibble
- Quibbler - n. - One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.
- Pun - n. - A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.