Definitions for: Pettifogging

[adj] quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

Webster (1913) Definition: Pet"ti*fog`ging, a.
Paltry; quibbling; mean.

Pet"ti*fog`ging, n.
Pettifoggery.

Synonyms: carping, caviling, critical, nitpicking, quibbling