QUIBBLE

noun a pun; a low conceit.

2. quibble ·vi to pun; to practice punning.

3. quibble ·noun a shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

4. quibble ·vi 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.