Reverse Dictionary: CAVIL

ADJECTIVES
1572 ► CAVILLOUS cavilling, full of objections; apt to object or criticize without good reason; captious, quibbling → obs.
1602 ► EXCEPTIOUS prone to making objections; ​cavilling, peevish, captious, complaining 

NOUNS
1325 ► CARP cavil, carping speech; power of speech → obs.
1519 ► HAFTING a cavilling, subtle dealing, dodging; holding off, hesitation, demur → obs.
1605 ► CAPTION a cavilling or taking exception; an objection or cavil; fallacious or captious argument; a quibble, sophism → obs.
1641 ► ARGUTATION a cavilling, a cavil, a quibble; over-refinement in arguing; subtle disputation → obs.

NOUNS, PERSON
1519 ► HAFTER a caviller, a wrangler, a haggler, a dodger → obs.
1584 ► GIRDER a person who cavils or sneers; a jester or satirist → obs.
1820 ► ARGLE-BARGLER a caviller; a contentious person → Sc.

VERBS
1500 ► BRABBLE to cavil or quibble; to dispute captiously or obstinately → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1519 ► HAFT to cavil, to use subtlety or deceit; to use shifts or dodges; to avoid coming to the point → obs.
1554 ► SNAG to cavil, to carp, to sneer, to nag → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1652 ► CUT THE HAIR to cavil, to make fine or cavilling distinctions; to ‘split hairs’ 
1727 ► ARGLE-BARGLE → ARGOL-BARGOL to cavil, to argue, to quarrel, to dispute, to contend; to haggle, to bandy words → chiefly Eng. dial. and Sc.
1777 ► HAGGLE to cavil, to dispute; to argue; esp., to dispute the terms of a bargain → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1825 ► CANGLE to cavil → Sc.
1886 ► CAFFLE to cavil, to quarrel, to wrangle → Eng. dial.