Quibbler \Quib"bler\, n.
One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
quibbler
n : a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty
objections [syn: caviller, caviler, pettifogger]
WordNet (r) 2.0
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "quibbler":
belittler, captious critic, carper, caviler, censor, censurer,
common scold, critic, criticizer, equivocator, faultfinder,
frondeur, hairsplitter, hedger, momus, mystificator, mystifier,
nitpicker, obscurantist, palterer, pettifogger, picayune critic,
prevaricator, pussyfoot, pussyfooter, scold, shuffler, smellfungus,
tergiversator
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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