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Pettifog
Pronunciation : Pet"ti*fog
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Petty + fog to pettifog.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
i. [imp. & p. p. Pettifogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pettifogging.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Pet"ti*fog
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim. [Colloq.]
t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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