'Pettifogger' definitions:
Definition of 'pettifogger'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Pettifogger'
From: GCIDE
- Pettifogger \Pet"ti*fog`ger\, n. A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer. [1913 Webster]
- A pettifogger was lord chancellor. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pettifogger'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambulance chaser,
- belittler,
- bunco artist,
- bunco steerer,
- captious critic,
- cardsharp,
- cardsharper,
- carper,
- carpetbagger,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- common scold,
- con artist,
- con man,
- confidence man,
- crimp,
- critic,
- criticizer,
- equivocator,
- faultfinder,
- frondeur,
- hairsplitter,
- hedger,
- horse coper,
- horse trader,
- jackleg,
- land pirate,
- land shark,
- land-grabber,
- momus,
- mortgage shark,
- mystificator,
- mystifier,
- nitpicker,
- obscurantist,
- palterer,
- Philadelphia lawyer,
- picayune critic,
- pitchman,
- prevaricator,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooter,
- quibbler,
- scold,
- shark,
- sharp,
- sharper,
- sharpie,
- shortchanger,
- shuffler,
- shyster,
- slicker,
- smellfungus,
- spieler,
- tergiversator