a quibbler
a lawyer of inferior quality, esp one who resorts to trickery
[prob from petty + obsolete fogger, perhaps from Fugger, 15th- and 16th-cent. German family of financiers and merchants]
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| 单词 | pettifogger |
| 释义 | pettifoggernoun archaica quibbler a lawyer of inferior quality, esp one who resorts to trickery [prob from petty + obsolete fogger, perhaps from Fugger, 15th- and 16th-cent. German family of financiers and merchants] |
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