"pettifog" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from pettifogger.",
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      "form": "pettifogs",
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        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pettifogging",
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    {
      "form": "pettifogged",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't pettifog or we will soon grow weary."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 April 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, page 35",
          "text": "[Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To quibble over trivial matters; nitpick."
      ],
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          "quibble"
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          "nitpick"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To quibble over trivial matters; nitpick."
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "S. Butler\nHe is a common barreter for his pleasure, that takes no money, but pettifogs gratis."
        }
      ],
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        "To do a petty business as a lawyer, or carry out law business in a petty or tricky way."
      ],
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        [
          "petty",
          "petty"
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          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "lawyer",
          "lawyer"
        ],
        [
          "carry out",
          "carry out"
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        [
          "law",
          "law"
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          "tricky",
          "tricky"
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        "(intransitive) To do a petty business as a lawyer, or carry out law business in a petty or tricky way."
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɛt.iˌfɒɡ/",
      "tags": [
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "squabble"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pettifog"
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    "English back-formations",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verbs"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from pettifogger.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pettifogs",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pettifogging",
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      "form": "pettifogged",
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      "form": "pettifogged",
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        {
          "text": "Don't pettifog or we will soon grow weary."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 April 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, page 35",
          "text": "[Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.",
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      ],
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        ],
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          "nitpick",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To quibble over trivial matters; nitpick."
      ],
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "S. Butler\nHe is a common barreter for his pleasure, that takes no money, but pettifogs gratis."
        }
      ],
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        "To do a petty business as a lawyer, or carry out law business in a petty or tricky way."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To do a petty business as a lawyer, or carry out law business in a petty or tricky way."
      ],
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      ]
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "squabble"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pettifog"
}