pettifoggery

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɛti.fɒɡ.ə.ɹi/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
    — He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.

词形变化

pettifoggeries plural

词源

Etymology tree
English pettifogger
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English pettifoggery
From pettifogger + -ery.
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