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Quibble
Quibble Quib"ble, n. [Probably fr. quib, quip, but influenced
by quillet, or quiddity.]
1. A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or
evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
Quibbles have no place in the search after truth. --
I. Watts.
2. A pun; a low conceit.
QuibbleQuibble Quib"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quibbled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Quibbling.]
1. 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.
2. To pun; to practice punning. --Cudworth.
Syn: To cavil; shuffle; equivocate; trifle.
Meaning of Quibbles from wikipedia
- A
quibble may
refer to: a
trivial objection a pun, or play on
words Quibble (plot device), in
narratology Quibble (computing), a quad
nibble This disambiguation...
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conditions of an
agreement in
order to
avoid the
intended meaning.
Typically quibbles are used in
legal bargains and, in fantasy,
magically enforced ones such...
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Quibble Island is a
river island in the city of Chennai,
Tamil Nadu, India.
Prior to
British colonization, it was not an
island but a
network of inter-tidal...
- 2011 an
Internet Draft explored various alternatives for
hextet such as
quibble,
short for "quad nibble". In
response to this draft,
author Trefor Davies...
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author may use
scare quotes not to
convey alarm, but to
signal a
semantic quibble.
Scare quotes may
suggest or
create a
problematization with the
words set...
- film three-and-a-half out of four stars,
saying that
despite his
usual quibbles regarding Nolan's
excessive dialogue and its lack of a
sense of composition...
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Epidendrum dendrobii is a
terrestrial species of reed-stemmed
Epidendrum of the
Orchidaceae which grows on
steep slopes in
tropical montane cloud forests...
- chicaner,
which means "to
create difficulties" or "to
dispute pointlessly", "
quibble",
which is also the root of the
English noun chicanery. The
Spanish verb...
- has been
ratified by time and by practice, and
there is
little point in
quibbling with it. Of course, the
president also
takes an oath to
support the Constitution...
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grave — all of it is on
display here. Even
though there are some
quibbles, they're
quibbles that are as much a part of the
Grimm experience as the witticisms...
