Dictionary Entry
quibble
quibble is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 24 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
- 2noun
A pun; a low conceit.
- 3intransitive verb
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.
- 4intransitive verb
To pun; to practice punning.
- 5noun
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
- 6verb
argue over petty things
"Let's not quibble over pennies"
- 7verb
evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
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