caviler

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who raises trivial, captious, or unreasonable objections

   The persistent caviler objected to every harmless detail of the proposal.

Formed from cavil + -er. Cavil comes through French and Latin cavillari, 'to jest or raise frivolous objections,' from cavilla, 'raillery.' The alternative spelling caviller preserves the doubled consonant used in British inflection.

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