Reverse Dictionary: QUIBBLE

ADJECTIVES
► CAVILLOUS quibbling, captious; apt to object or criticize without good reason → 1572 obs.
► QUIBBLY of the nature of a quibble → 1895
► QUIDIFICAL  quibbling, captious; triflingly subtle → 1542 obs.

NOUNS
► ARGUTATION over-refinement in arguing; subtle disputation; cavilling, cavil, quibble → 1641 obs.
► BAFFLE a shuffle; quibbling, trifling → 1783 obs.
► BAFFLING quibbling; trifling → 1653 obs.
► BRABBLE a quibble, a captious objection or dispute → 1581 obs.
► CAPTION the act of cavilling or taking exception; an objection or cavil; fallacious or captious argument; a quibble, sophism → 1605 obs.
► CARRIWITCHET ► CARWITCHET a pun, a quibble, a conundrum; a hoaxing, puzzling, or absurd question → 1614
► CATASOPHISTRY quibbling, deceit → 1609 obs.
► QUABBLE a quibble → 19C Eng. dial.
► QUIB a quibble; an evasion of the point at issue → a1550 obs.
► QUIBBLEISM the practice of quibbling → 1836
► QUIBIBBLE a quibble → 1606 obs.
► QUIBIBE a quibble → a1550 obs.
► QUIBLET a quibble → 1630 obs.
► QUIBLIN a pun or quibble; a trick → 1605 obs.
► QUIDDIT a subtlety or captious nicety in argument; a quirk, a quibble → 1592 arch.
► QUIDDITY a subtlety or captious nicety in argument; a quirk, a quibble → 1539
► QUILICOM an idle fancy, conceit, or quibble → 1644 obs.
► QUILLET a verbal nicety or subtle distinction; a quirk, a quibble → 1588
► QUILLETY  ► QUILLITY a quirk, a quibble → 1573 obs.
► QUIRK a dodge, a trick; a quibble, catch; a question asked in order to elicit information → 1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► QUODDITY a subtle distinction; a quibble, esp. in argument → 1682

VERBS
► BAFFLE to juggle, to shuffle, to quibble → 1656 obs.
► BALK  ► BAULK to meet arguments with objections; to quibble, to bandy words → 1596 obs.
► BRABBLE to dispute captiously or obstinately; to cavil or quibble → c1500 obs. exc. Eng. dial. obs.
► GO ‘TWIXT THE OAK AND THE RIND to make fine distinctions; to split hairs, to quibble → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAFFLE to hesitate; to speak confusedly; to falter; to stammer; to prevaricate, to quibble → 1790 Eng. dial.
► PETTIFOGULIZE to quibble; to use petty and contemptible means → 1853
► POLLYFOX ► POLLYFOX AROUND to dilly-dally, to delay and discuss, to quibble or equivocate → 1873 Amer. dial.
► QUABBLE to quibble→ 19C Eng. dial.
► QUILLET to quibble → 1653 obs.
► QUODLIBETIFICATE to deal quibblingly with → 1743 obs.