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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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Pettifogger
Pettifogger may refer to: Larsen E. Pettifogger, a character in the comic strip The Wizard of Id The Pettifogger, a 2011 film from Lewis Klahr See also Gaming the system Trivial objections wikipedia.org
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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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pettifogulize
pettiˈfogulize, v. nonce-wd. [f. pettifogger.] intr. To quibble. Hence pettiˈfogulizer.1853 De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. I. 59 So far from seeking to ‘pettifogulise’—i.e. to find evasions for any purpose in a trickster's minute tortuosities of construction. Ibid. 60, I showed so much scrupulosity a... Oxford English Dictionary
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CRITIC crossword clue & answer - The Crossword Solver
critic 11 letter words. cognoscente commentator common scold connaisseur connoisseur criticaster dance critic drama critic faultfinder ghostwriter interpreter literary man litterateur logographer monographer music critic news analyst novelettist pamphleteer pettifogger prose writer smellfungus story teller storyteller word painter.
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Richard Keble
Hilkiah Bedford, a political opponent, called him "an insolent, mercenary pettifogger," who without jury or evidence sent to the gallows any he suspected wikipedia.org
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pettifogging
▪ I. pettifogging, vbl. n. (ˈpɛtɪfɒgɪŋ) [f. as pettifog v. + -ing1.] The action of a pettifogger; legal trickery; chicanery, pettifoggery; quibbling.1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Chicanerie, pety⁓fogging. 1611 Cotgr., Chicanerie, wrangling, pettifogging; litigious or craftie pleading. 1630 R. John... Oxford English Dictionary
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Lewis Klahr
Selected filmography Her Fragrant Emulsion (1987) Hi-Fi Cadets (1989) The Pharaoh's Belt (1993) Altair (1995) Lulu (1996) Pony Glass (1998) The Pettifogger wikipedia.org
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pettifog
▪ I. pettifog, v. (ˈpɛtɪfɒg) [app. a back-formation from pettifogger: cf. fog v.3 and pettifogging.] 1. intr. To act as a pettifogger; to plead or conduct a petty case in a minor court of law; to practise legal chicanery; also transf., to wrangle or quibble about small petty points.1611 Cotgr., Chic... Oxford English Dictionary
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Pettifogger". A scene from the film is featured in the opening to Dummy (2002). wikipedia.org
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leguleian
leguleian, a. and n. (lɛgjuːˈliːan) [f. L. lēgulēï-us a pettifogger (f. lēg-, lex law) + -an.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to petty questions of law or to law language; pettifogging. rare.1677 Needham 2nd Pacquet Adv. 21 It is a small matter with our Factious Leguleian Scriblers to form up Opinions upo... Oxford English Dictionary
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The Little Hut
Plot High-flying tycoon Sir Philip Ashlow (Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Susan Ashlow (Gardner) and his best friend, pettifogger civil servant Henry wikipedia.org
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Alexander Fitton
Character Fitton has been judged harshly both by contemporaries and by later historians, especially Thomas Macaulay, who dismissed Fitton as a "pettifogger wikipedia.org
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fogger
▪ I. fogger1 (ˈfɒgə(r)) [Of somewhat obscure history; but prob. derived from Fugger, the surname of a renowned family of merchants and financiers of Augsburg in the 15th and 16th c. The name passed as an appellative into several European langs. In German fugger, fucker, focker (see Grimm) has had th... Oxford English Dictionary
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Tom Puss
Zedekia Zwederkoorn: A rat who is a lawyer or rather a bibacious pettifogger. wikipedia.org
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