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pettifog

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pettifog/ˈpɛtɪfɒɡ/

▶verb (pettifogs, pettifogging, pettifogged) archaic

1 quibble about petty points.

2 practise legal deception or trickery.

– derivatives
pettifoggery noun.

– origin C17: back-form. from pettifogger.

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