quibble的词源

英文词源

quibble

quibble: [17] Quibble probably originated as a rather ponderous learned joke-word. It is derived from an earlier and now obsolete quib ‘pun’, which appears to have been based on quibus, the dative and ablative plural of Latin quī ‘who, what’. The notion is that since quibus made frequent appearances in legal documents written in Latin, it became associated with pettifogging points of law.

quibble (n.)

1610s, "a pun, a play on words," probably a diminutive of obsolete quib "evasion of point at issue," based on an overuse of Latin quibus? in legal jargon, which supposedly gave it the association with trivial argument. Meaning "equivocation, evasion of the point" is attested from 1660s.

quibble (v.)

"equivocate, evade the point, turn from the point in question or the plain truth," 1650s, from quibble (n.). Earlier "to pun" (1620s). Related: Quibbled; quibbling.

中文词源

quibble：遁词，含糊其词　　

源自拉丁语quibus‘whom，which’。旧时律师在翻阅拉丁文法律文件时，常在有疑点或含糊不清的地方的页边写上quibus 一词，表示质疑。16世纪从quibus产生了英语单词quib（夸已废弃不用），它的意思是“模棱两可的话”或“双关语”。 17世纪时quib演变为quibble，它既可用作名词，表示“遁词”、“托词”，也可用作动词，表示“含糊其词回避问题实质”，有时也表示“（为小事）争吵”。

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quibble：斤斤计较，吹毛求疵，模棱两可

来自quib,逃避问题实质。-le,表反复。