[-ING2.] That quibbles; characterized by quibbles.
1657. J. Jordan, Walks Islington, II. ii. Pox on your Cobling jeasts, you quibling Coxcombe.
1675. Baxter, Cath. Theol., II. II. 250. I have detected the fraud of their quibling distinction.
1772. Junius Lett., lxviii. 353. A cunning quibbling attorney might … discover a flaw.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 266. The quibbling follies of the Sophists.
Hence Quibblingly adv.
1657. J. Sergeant, Schism Dispach’t, Post-scr. Their old method of talking preachingly, quotingly, and quibblingly.
