单词 | quibble |
释义 | quibblen. 1. A play on words, a pun. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > play on words, pun allusion1550 nick1561 paronomasia1577 paronomasy1592 quiblin1605 quibblea1627 quiblet1627 clinch1629 quibbling1633 clink1634 clench1638 pun1644 conundrum1645 whim1652 pundigrion1673 jeu de mots1823 calembour1830 Tom Swifty1963 paronym1982 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > [noun] > practitioner of quibblea1627 quibblera1680 punster1699 pettifogulizer1851 a1627 T. Middleton Mayor of Quinborough (1661) v. i. 63 2 Cheat. The Whirligig, the Whibble, the Carwidgen. .Sym. Hey day, what names are these! 2 Cheat. New names of late. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 8 All Humour had something of the Quibble. The very Language of the Court was Punning. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 369 The opposition of Immortalis and Mortalis, is a mere sound, or a mere quibble. 1827 R. M. Bird Caridorf ii. iv, in America's Lost Plays (1941) XII. 97 I think puns, quibbles, double-entendres, tropes,..and several other comical things, Are as material to your witty man, As legs to your horses. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xi. 293 Several questions, involving a quibble or play upon words. 1925 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 40 597 Quibbles on the shrew's name are particularly common. 1993 Shakespeare Bull. Summer 15/3 In a play where rhetoric competes with pedantry, quibbles with malapropisms, and eloquence rides high above all, one should not complain that the production fell short of verbal brilliance. 2. a. An equivocation, evasion, or frivolous objection based on an ambiguity or uncertainty of wording, a trivial circumstance, etc. In later use frequently: an objection to a point of detail, a minor complaint or criticism.In quot. 1796 figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > [noun] quiddity1539 quibc1540 quibibec1540 quirk1565 quillity1573 quid1576 quillet1576 quipa1592 quiddit1592 quidlit1598 quibibble1606 punctual1610 quidlibet1611 catasophistrya1614 quibbling1633 Scotism1645 quibble1650 thingum1672 quoddity1682 scruple1713 baffle1783 nit1982 1650 T. Vaughan Magia Adamica 45 Truly this is it which no Distinction, nor any other Logicall Quibble can wave, nothing but Experience can refell this Argument. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. iii. 41 To answer all these fallacies and quibbles, founded in some false supposition or ambiguous word. 1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 100 (note) Henry was so reduced to making out any title to the crown, that he catched even at a quibble. 1796 M. Robinson Angelina II. 184 His features were all quibbles; for it was impossible to guess what they meant for two minutes together. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 471 To a plain understanding his objections seem to be mere quibbles. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. I. ii. 280 Those advocates of persecution, who would stoop to any quibble in their cause. 1908 E. F. Benson Climber 158 You say that, owing to your sex, you have a greater experience of women smoking. A quibble, my darling, a palpable quibble. 1968 N.Y. Post 15 Jan. 45/3 Each day passes with some new semantic quibble emanating from Washington. 2006 Wallpaper June 32/1 We always manage to find fault with the hotels we're staying in. Sometimes it's a mere quibble (the minibar contents are disappointing, the décor a little off message). b. The use of quibbles; quibbling. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > [noun] > use of quibbling1633 baffling1653 quirk1674 quibble1710 quibbing1874 quiddity1881 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 100 A liar is upon the reserve, and wou'd throw off the odium by quibble and equivocation. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lxi. 287 You attribute it to an honest zeal in behalf of innocence oppressed by quibble and chicane. 1881 W. S. Gilbert Patience ii. 30 To stuff his conversation full of quibble and of quiddity. 1941 F. F. Van de Water Reluctant Republic iii. 37 By quibble and delay..Wentworth had saved his province men and money. 1993 I. Doig Heart Earth (1994) 6 We had ended up somewhere between quibble and quarrel forever, this quicksilver uncle and I. Compounds General attributive and objective. ΚΠ 1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 4 Much less have I cast about for Jests, and gone a quibble-catching. quibble-loving adj. rare. ΚΠ a1807 Britannic Mag. 10 61/1 But the golden age for puns and quibbles, was the reign of that quibbling and quibble-loving pedant, James the First. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. iv. iii. 234 A quibble-loving lawyer. ΚΠ 1829 J. Bentham Justice & Codification Petitions iii. 115 The quibble-sanctioning judge. ΚΠ 1839 ‘D. I. Moriarty’ Husband-hunter III. x. 202 Law pun-traps and quibble-springes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). quibblev.1ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > be witty with words [verb (intransitive)] > pun allude1556 clinch1648 quibble1650 pun1670 1650 J. Taylor Late Weary, Merry Voy. 10 I give and take Jests, Bull, and clinch, and quibble. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 130 How the Ministers themselves do jingle, quibble, and play the fools with their Texts. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 61. ¶2 Nothing is more usual than to see a Hero weeping and quibbling for a dozen Lines together. 1777 J. Priestley Course Lect. Oratory & Crit. iii. xiv. 105 More improbable still is it that King John, in the agonies of death,..would pun and quibble in the manner that Shakespeare represents him to have done. 1797 F. G. Waldron Virgin Queen iv. iii. 85 For a Fool I'm provided in Trinculo; While I my sack quaff, he may quibble and laugh. 2. a. intransitive. To raise a petty objection; to argue about a triviality; to evade the point at issue by a quibble. Frequently with about.In quot. 1978 transitive with direct speech as object. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > quibble, equivocate [verb (intransitive)] quillet1653 quibble1655 baffle1656 chicane1705 pettifogulize1851 pettifogc1867 quib1918 1655 J. Sergeant Schism Dis-arm'd 130 To shew a willingness to put it off by quibbling in the words, this Iland; as if they did not signifie these Ilanders. 1656 O. Cromwell Speech 17 Sept. in Writings & Speeches (1947) (modernized text) IV. 271 Needlessly to mind things that are not essential, to be quibbling about words. 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 5 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1208 Give me but virtuous actions, and I will not quibble and chicane about the motives. 1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 289 I hope Mr. Neal did not mean to quibble, as the New-Englanders generally do, by a jesuitism, viz. that religion is peaceable and admits not of quarrels. 1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV II. 83 Mazarin proceeded to irritate De Retz..by quibbling upon the words of his bargain. 1886 L. M. Alcott Let. (1889) xi. 349 I always leave proof-readers to quibble if they like. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xiii. 293 I paid for it. I didn't quibble about the price. 1978 C. MacLeod Rest you Merry vi. 44 ‘That depends how you define vibrant,’ her husband quibbled. 1990 ‘A. Cross’ Players come Again (1992) xi. 219 All the arrangements had been made, remade, refined, redefined, and quibbled over. ΚΠ 1713 T. Birch in Guardian No. 36. ⁋4 Who ever lost his estate in Westminster Hall, but complained that he was quibbled out of his right? 1768 Boyer's Royal Dict. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) He endeavoured to quibble away, (to elude,) the sanctity of an oath. 1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 101 This Act has also, in many cases, been quibbled away. ΚΠ 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. i. 38 The simple warriors..who only learned..from white men how to break their faith, and quibble out of forms and bonds. 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. ii. 52 She reverenced him still, baffled as she was, and sensible that she had been quibbled with. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quibblev.2 rare. intransitive. To quiver; to shake, wobble. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > tremble or quiver shiverc1250 tremble1303 lillec1400 tryllec1400 quaver?a1439 didderc1440 dadderc1450 whitherc1450 bever1470 dindle1470 brawl1489 quiver1490 quitter1513 flichter1528 warble1549 palsy1582 quoba1586 twitter1629 dither1649 verberate1652 quibble1721 dandera1724 tremulate1749 vibrate1757 dingle1787 nidge1803 tirl1825 reel1847 shudder1849 tremor1921 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Quibble,..to move as the Guts do. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Quibbly I be afeard I've a catcht a chill, I do quibbly all over. 1984 L. Erdrich Love Med. 196 There was nobody out there either, to point which way they went. Just the dandelion fork quibbling upright in the ground. 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