Pettifogger (noun)
pet-ee-fog-er
A lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery / Someone who pettifogs
C16: from petty + fogger, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Fugger, name of a family (C15–16) of German financiers
Example sentences
“He was known as a pettifogger and it wasn’t any good for business.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
