pettifogs

Meaning of pettifogs

verb
  1. To quibble over trivial matters; nitpick.
    Don't pettifog or we will soon grow weary.
  2. To do a petty business as a lawyer, or carry out law business in a petty or tricky way.

Information about pettifogs

  • It is a verb.
  • The singular form of pettifogs is: pettifog.
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Hyphenation of pettifogs

pet-ti-fogs

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • pettifogs is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with pettifogs

fogs, megafogs, befogs, defogs

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