Do you sometimes quibble?
Perhaps. To “quibble over” something is to raise objections that are trivial (hacer objeciones de poca monta). Here are some examples of its use as a verb:
- Mr. Sánchez always quibbles (Señor Sánchez es un quisquilloso).
- He always quibbles about something (el siempre discute por algo sin importancia).
- Mr. Rajoy is not going to quibble over 1 million euros (el Señor Rajoy no va a discutir por 1,000,000 euros).
The noun is “quibble”. A quibble is a trivial objection (una objeción de poca monta). Consider these:
- Mr. Rajoy dismissed their objections as mere quibbles (… desestimó sus objeciones como si se trataran de simples nimiedades).
- I have one minor quibble (tengo una pequeña objeción).
There is also another noun, a person, “a quibbler” (quisquilloso/a), a person that quibbles all the time.
So a person who quibbles has a quibble and therefore is a quibbler. Are you one?
