English-Thai Dictionary

quibble

VI พูด คลุมเครือ  พูด ประชดประชัน  dodge complain evade phud-klum-kue

 

quibble about / over

PHRV ตอบ คลุมเครือ  tob-klum-kua

 

quibbler

N ผู้พูด คลุมเครือ  ผู้พูด ประชด  critic phu-phud-klum-kue

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUIBBLE

n. 1. A start or turn from the point in question, or from plain truth; an evasion; a cavil; a pretense; as, to answer a sound argument by quibbles.
Quirks and quibbles have no place in the search after truth.
2. A pun; a low conceit.

 

QUIBBLE

v.i. 1. To evade the point in question, or plain truth, by artifice, play upon words, caviling or any conceit; to trifle in argument or discourse.
2. To pun.

 

QUIBBLER

n. 1. One who evades plain truth by trifling artifices, play upon words, or cavils.
2. A punster.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

QUIBBLE

Quib "ble, n. Etym: [Probably fr. quib, quip, but influenced by quillet, or quiddity. ]

 

1. A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil. Quibbles have no place in the search after truth. I. Watts.

 

2. A pun; a low conceit.

 

QUIBBLE

Quib "ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quibbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quibbling.]

 

1. 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.

 

2. To pun; to practice punning. Cudworth.

 

Syn. -- To cavil; shuffle; equivocate; trifle.

 

QUIBBLER

QUIBBLER Quib "bler, n.

 

Defn: One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

quibble

quib ble |ˈkwibəl ˈkwɪbəl | ▶noun 1 a slight objection or criticism: the only quibble about this book is the price. 2 archaic a play on words; a pun. ▶verb [ no obj. ] argue or raise objections about a trivial matter: they are always quibbling about the amount they are prepared to pay. DERIVATIVES quib bler noun, quib bling ly adverb ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘play on words, pun ’): diminutive of obsolete quib ‘a petty objection, ’ probably from Latin quibus, dative and ablative plural of qui, quae, quod ‘who, what, which, ’ frequently used in legal documents and so associated with subtle distinctions or verbal niceties.

 

Oxford Dictionary

quibble

quib ¦ble |ˈkwɪb (ə )l | ▶noun 1 a slight objection or criticism: the only quibble about this book is the price. 2 archaic a play on words; a pun. ▶verb [ no obj. ] argue or raise objections about a trivial matter: they are always quibbling about the amount they are prepared to pay. DERIVATIVES quibbler noun, quibblingly adverb ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘play on words, pun ’): diminutive of obsolete quib ‘a petty objection ’, probably from Latin quibus, dative and ablative plural of qui, quae, quod ‘who, what, which ’, frequently used in legal documents and so associated with subtle distinctions or verbal niceties.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

quibble

quibble noun I have just one quibble: criticism, objection, complaint, protest, argument, exception, grumble, grouse, cavil; informal beef, gripe, moan. ▶verb no one quibbled with the title: object to, find fault with, complain about, cavil at; split hairs about; criticize, query, fault, pick holes in; informal nitpick; archaic pettifog.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

quibble

quibble noun 1 apart from that quibble, it was fine: minor criticism, trivial objection, trivial complaint, adverse comment, protest, query, argument, exception, moan, grumble, grouse, cavil; informal niggle, gripe, beef, grouch, nitpicking; archaic pettifogging. 2 I ignored his ridiculous quibbles about interest rates: evasion, dodge; (quibbles ) avoidance, equivocation, prevarication, hedging, fudging. ▶verb 1 no one would quibble with the subtitle: find fault with, raise trivial objections to, complain about, object to, cavil at, carp about; split hairs, chop logic; criticize, query, fault, pick, holes in; informal nitpick; archaic pettifog. 2 he's always quibbling, so it is difficult to get a straight answer out of him: be evasive, equivocate, avoid the issue, prevaricate, hedge, fudge, be ambiguous; informal beat about the bush.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

quibble

quib ble /kwɪ́b (ə )l /名詞 C 難癖, 屁 （へ ）理屈, 言いのがれ, あら捜し .動詞 自動詞 ｟否定的に ｠ «…について » あら捜しをする, 難癖をつける, 屁理屈を言う, 言いのがれをする «over , about , with » .qu í b bler 名詞