quibble
• noun 1 a slight objection or criticism. 2 archaic a pun. • verb argue about a trivial matter. — ORIGIN from obsolete quib a petty objection , probably from Latin quibus, from qui, quae, quod ‘who, what, which’, frequently used in legal documents and therefore associated with subtle distinctions.
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