Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pettifogging.
- noun A pettifogger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Lawyerlike; legal.
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- adjective
legal ; like alawyer - noun A
lawyer .
Etymologies
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Latin leguleius pettifogger, from lex, legis, law.
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Examples
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And, on looking again at one case of '_thereafter_,' viz. at page 79, it seems impossible to determine whether he uses it in the classical English sense, or in the sense of leguleian barbarism.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
whichbe commented on the word leguleian
An attorney whose methods are underhanded, petty and disreputable.
May 12, 2008