2 entries under this word

Quibble

Quib'ble, n.

noun

(kwĭb'bl), n. [Probably from Lat. quidlibet, what you please. See QUILLET, QUIDDIT, and supra.]

Sense 1. A start or turn from the point in question; an evasion; a cavil; a pretense.

Quirks and quibbles have no place in the search after truth. Watts.

Sense 2. A pun; a low conceit.

verbintransitive

[imp. & p. p. QUIBBLED; p. pr. & vb. n. QUIBBLING.]

To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or any conceit; to take refuge from the main matter in an insignificant or impertinent question raised or point made; to trifle in argument or discourse.
To pun; to practice punning.