PETTIFOG

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way. "He takes no money, but pettifogs gratis." S. Butler.

2.
v.

To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim. [Colloq.]


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