Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Quibble \Quib"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quibbled}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Quibbling}.]
   1. 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.

   2. To pun; to practice punning. --Cudworth.

   Syn: To cavil; shuffle; equivocate; trifle.

Source : WordNet®

quibbling
     adj : quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers
           and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and
           carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily
           nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no
           patience with quibbling critics" [syn: {caviling}, {carping},
            {nitpicking}, {pettifogging}]