meaning of pettifogging
1. Paltry; quibbling; mean.
2. Pettifoggery.
3. of Pettifog
4. quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyers mind"; "had no patience with quibbling
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