Obs. exc. U.S. [f. QUIB or QUIBBLE: see -LET.] = QUIBBLE sb.

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1630.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Wit & Mirth, Wks. 181/2. A quiblet … Nay, then I cannot blame you to be angry.

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1636.  Abp. Williams, Holy Table (1637), 128. This Quiblet is grounded upon a mere Errour of the Printer.

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1681.  T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 46 (1713), II. 43. I cannot admire the Quiblet of the Influences of a Half-moon.

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1890.  Barrère & Leland, Slang Dict., Quiblets (American), a kind of witticism much in vogue in negro minstrelsy.

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