pettyfog

English

Verb

pettyfog (third-person singular simple present pettyfogs, present participle pettyfogging, simple past and past participle pettyfogged)

  1. Alternative form of pettifog
    • 1949, News Bulletin of the Iowa State Bar Association - Volumes 9-13:
      His was the nimble brain which delayed, pettyfogged, and conceived the confusing novel.
    • 1975, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates, Official Report - Volume 6, page 6023:
      Member: You are pettyfogging now.
    • 2013, Ziauddin Sardar, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Critical Muslim 07: Muslim Archipelago, →ISBN:
      Such pettyfogging was not the temper desired for what King Manoel of Portugal already termed his Empire of the Indies.
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