Quibble /(?)/

1. A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

   Quibbles have no place in the search after truth.

2. A pun; a low conceit.

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.