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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quibble \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.
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