pettifoggery | sense examples, Usage and Definition from wordnet dictionary online

Noun pettifoggery has 1 sense

bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss - a quarrel about petty points
--₁ is a kind of quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup

Derived form: verb pettifog₁