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pettifoggings

pettifoggings is the plural of pettifogging.

Meaning of pettifogging

Noun

pettifogging (plural pettifoggings)

  1. pettifoggery
    • […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

Questions about pettifoggings

What is pettifoggings the plural of?
Pettifoggings is the plural of pettifogging.

Words near pettifoggings in the dictionary

  1. pettifogger
  2. pettifoggeries
  3. pettifoggers
  4. pettifoggery
  5. pettifogging
  6. pettifoggings
  7. pettifoging
  8. pettifogs
  9. pettifogulize
  10. pettifogulized
  11. pettifogulizes

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