Word Meanings - PETTIFOGGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer. A pettifogger was lord chancellor. Macaulay.

Related words: (words related to PETTIFOGGER)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• ATTORNEYISM
  The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys.
• INFERIOR
  Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. Inferior court , a court subject to the jurisdiction of another court known as the superior, or higher, court. -- Inferior letter, Inferior figure , a small letter or figure standing at the
• INFERIORITY
  The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• LAWYER
  1. One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• ATTORNEY-GENERAL
  The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton. (more info) general).
• ATTORNEY
  of atorner: cf. LL. atturnatus, attornatus, fr. attornare. See 1. A substitute; a proxy; an agent. And will have no attorney but myself. Shak. One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact. A legal
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• ATTORNEYSHIP
  The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. Shak.
• TRICKY
  Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
• PETTY
  Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small
• CHANCELLOR
  A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. Note: The chancellor was originally a chief scribe or secretary under the Roman emperors, but afterward was invested with
• PETTIFOGGERY
  The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles. Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. Barrow.
• LAWYERLIKE; LAWYERLY
  Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity. "Lawyerly mooting of this point." Milton.
• PETTIFOGGER
  A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer. A pettifogger was lord chancellor. Macaulay.
• PETTYCHAPS
  Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler .
• PENANG LAWYER
  A kind of walking stick made from the stem of an East Asiatic palm .
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• SEA LAWYER
  The gray snapper. See under Snapper.