n. & v.
n. 1 a petty objection; a trivial point of criticism. 2 a play on words; a pun. 3 an evasion; an insubstantial argument which relies on an ambiguity etc.
v.intr. use quibbles. quibbler n. quibbling adj. quibblingly adv.
[ dimin. of obs. quib prob. f. L quibus dative & ablat. pl. of qui who (familiar from use in legal documents) ]