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pettifactor
† pettifactor, petifactor Obs. rare. [app. = petty factor: cf. petty a. and factor n. 3.] ? A legal agent who undertakes small cases. Cf. pettifogger.1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 92 Thereby, the number of pleaders and petifactors be so far increased that although the common-wealth is wonderfully torn... Oxford English Dictionary
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petifactor
petifactor see pettifactor. Oxford English Dictionary
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pettifogger
pettifogger (ˈpɛtɪˌfɒgə(r)) Also 6–7 pety-, 6–9 petty-fogger; 6 petifoger, 7 dial. -voguer, petty foger. [Orig. sometimes as two words, petty fogger, and later often hyphened, petti-fogger, etc. First element petty a., second obscure: cf. fogger1 (but this was perhaps only a shortening of petty-fogg... Oxford English Dictionary
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