pettifogging
English edit
Verb edit
pettifogging
- present participle and gerund of pettifog
Noun edit
pettifogging (plural pettifoggings)
- pettifoggery
- 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
- […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]
- 1967, Agatha Christie, Endless Night:
- It's lots of other pettifogging, degrading things. Things you have to endure, things you never have to think about until they happen to you.