Word of the Day – Pettifog

Pettifog (verb)

pet-if-ogg

Quibble about petty points; to engage in legal chicanery.

Nowadays we’d call it nitpicking but I do love this archaic term for this highly irksome habit.

Example sentences

“Do you have to pettifog over every single thing?”

“He’s such a master of pettifogging that he could have the devil himself acquitted.”