1. quibble - Noun
2. quibble - Verb
A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
A pun; a low conceit.
To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.
To pun; to practice punning.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThis is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin. Orson Scott Card
I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider. Joss Whedon
It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day. David Gemmell
Don't quibble with the king over pears, let him eat the ripe ones and give you the green ones. José Saramago
Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. Bob Black
These experts who offer to do our thinking for us rarely share their conclusions about work, for all its saliency in the lives of all of us. Among themselves they quibble over the details. Bob Black