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Translate quibble from English to French

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quibble:
- chicane; couper les cheveux en quatre
Wiktionary:
- quibble → argutie
- quibble → chicaner, ergoter, chinoiser, chipoter, pinailler, enculer les mouches
- quibble → chamailler, ergoter

English

Detailed Translations for quibble from English to French

quibble:

quibble [the ~] noun

the quibble (pettifoggery)
la chicane; le couper les cheveux en quatre
- chicane [la ~] noun
- couper les cheveux en quatre [le ~] noun

Translation Matrix for quibble:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
chicane	pettifoggery; quibble	arguing; bickering; cavilling; fault-finding; hairsplitting; niggling; nitpicking; quarreling; quibbling; splitting hairs; squabbling; wrangling
couper les cheveux en quatre	pettifoggery; quibble
-	cavil; quiddity
Verb	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	bicker; brabble; niggle; pettifog; squabble
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	sophism; subtlety

Related Words for "quibble":

quibbles

Synonyms for "quibble":

quiddity; cavil; evasion; equivocation
hedge; fudge; evade; put off; circumvent; parry; elude; skirt; dodge; duck; sidestep
niggle; pettifog; bicker; squabble; brabble; argue; contend; debate; fence

Related Definitions for "quibble":

an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections¹
argue over petty things¹
- Let's not quibble over pennies¹
evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections¹

Wiktionary Translations for quibble:

quibble

noun

a trivial or minor complaint, objection or argument
- quibble → argutie

verb

to complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner
- quibble → chicaner; ergoter; chinoiser; chipoter; pinailler

quibble

verb

user de chicane.
- chicaner → carp at; haze; quibble; cavil
(vulgaire) (figuré) Se perdre en arguties pour des vétilles, chicaner, se montrer tatillon.
- enculer les mouches → nit-pick; quibble; split hairs
zoologie|fr utiliser ses ergots, parler d'un coq.
- ergoter → quibble; cavil; carp

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• quibble	→ chamailler	↔ kibbelen — woordenstrijd hebben
• quibble	→ ergoter	↔ kritteln — in kleinlicher Weise kritisieren

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University