pettyfog
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pettyfog (third-person singular simple present pettyfogs, present participle pettyfogging, simple past and past participle pettyfogged)
- Alternative form of pettifog
- 1949, News Bulletin of the Iowa State Bar Association - Volumes 9-13:
- His was the nimble brain which delayed, pettyfogged, and conceived the confusing novel.
- 1975, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates, Official Report - Volume 6, page 6023:
- Member: You are pettyfogging now.
- 2013, Ziauddin Sardar, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Critical Muslim 07: Muslim Archipelago, →ISBN:
- Such pettyfogging was not the temper desired for what King Manoel of Portugal already termed his Empire of the Indies.