quibble: [17] Quibble probably originated as a rather ponderous learned joke-word. It is derived from an earlier and now obsolete quib ‘pun’, which appears to have been based on quibus, the dative and ablative plural of Latin quī ‘who, what’. The notion is that since quibus made frequent appearances in legal documents written in Latin, it became associated with pettifogging points of law.
quibble (n.)
1610s, "a pun, a play on words," probably a diminutive of obsolete quib "evasion of point at issue," based on an overuse of Latin quibus? in legal jargon, which supposedly gave it the association with trivial argument. Meaning "equivocation, evasion of the point" is attested from 1660s.
quibble (v.)
"equivocate, evade the point, turn from the point in question or the plain truth," 1650s, from quibble (n.). Earlier "to pun" (1620s). Related: Quibbled; quibbling.
例文
1. Let 's not quibble .
私たちは気にしないでください。
2.Why quibble ？It just amounted to pulling an inconsiderate monkey.
いいでしょう、人情の通じないサルを引いているのではないでしょうか。
3.Such a quibble did not trouble Livingston and his friends.
という詭弁は、リヴィングストンと彼の友人を困らせていない。
4.She 's only introducing this as a quibble .
彼女がこれを提案したのは、単なる逃げ口上だった。
5. " Why quibble about the Yankees earning an honest penny selling out the Union?