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单词 quibble
释义

quibblen.

Brit. /ˈkwɪbl/, U.S. /ˈkwɪb(ə)l/
Forms: 1600s whibble, 1600s–1700s quible, 1600s– quibble, 1700s wheebele (Scottish).
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: quib n., -le suffix 1.
Etymology: Apparently < quib n. + -le suffix 1. Perhaps compare earlier quibibble n., quibibe n., and quiblin n.The word form quible , with no gloss or other explanation, occurs in the Generall Table of R. Mulcaster First Part Elementarie (1582) xxv. 209/1. For an alternative etymology relating the word ultimately to the group of words connected with cavil n. see W. Rothwell in English Studies 85 (2004) June 177–88, and compare Anglo-Norman kevil small, ethically dubious matter (1313 or earlier in this figurative sense), variant of keville peg, nail, plug (see kevel n.2, and compare earlier cavil n. and later cheville n.).
1. A play on words, a pun.
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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.
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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.
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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.
quibble-catching adj. Obsolete rare.
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1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 4 Much less have I cast about for Jests, and gone a quibble-catching.
quibble-loving adj. rare.
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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.
quibble-sanctioning adj. Obsolete rare.
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1829 J. Bentham Justice & Codification Petitions iii. 115 The quibble-sanctioning judge.
quibble-springe n. Obsolete rare.
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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.1

Brit. /ˈkwɪbl/, U.S. /ˈkwɪb(ə)l/
Forms: 1600s whible, 1600s–1700s quible, 1600s– quibble.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quibble n.
Etymology: < quibble n.
1. intransitive. To pun, to play on words. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
b. transitive. To make use of quibbles in order to cheat (a person) out of something, or to explain away (something awkward). Obsolete.
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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.
c. intransitive. To make use of quibbles in order to wriggle out of something agreed, or to deal unfairly with a person. Obsolete. rare.
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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

Brit. /ˈkwɪbl/, U.S. /ˈkwɪb(ə)l/
Forms: 1700s 1900s– quibble, 1800s– quibbly (English regional (Somerset)).
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps imitative. Perhaps influenced by quiver v.1 and wobble v.
rare.
intransitive. To quiver; to shake, wobble.
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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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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