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Definition: Caviller |
CavillerNoun1. A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "caviller" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
"Caviller" is a common misspelling or typo for: caviler. |
Synonyms: CavillerSynonyms: caviler (n), pettifogger (n), quibbler (n). (additional references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | For my temptation to think it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "caviller"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | grindavec (arguer, cantankerous, captious, contentious, crab, crank, croaker, disputant, fractious, fretful, ill tempered, noisy person, peevish, pettish, quarrelsome, spitfire, wrangler), ai që kërkon halën në përqeq. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дребнав човек. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wortklauber (quibbler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φιλόψογοσ, λεπτολόγοσ (discriminating, finicky, meticulous, particular, pernickety, prim, scrupulous, squeamish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avillercay sofista (casuist, sophist, sophistic). (various references) cicãlitor (annoying, fault finding, grumbler, nagging, naggy, pestiferous, quarrelsome), cârcotaş (carping, fault finding, grumbling, grumpy, quarrelsome, querulous). (various references) придирчивый человек, придира (carper, criticaster, faultfinder, fault-finder, knocker, nagger, quibbler, sea lawyer). (various references) kavaljer (cavalier). (various references) gnattare. (various references) itirazcı (caviler, demurrer, deprecator, objector, protester, remonstrant). (various references) người hay lý sự cùn (quibbler), người hay gây chuyện cãi nhau vặt, người hay cãi bướng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "caviller": cavillers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-r-v" | |
-1 letter: caviler, clavier, valeric. | |
-2 letters: caller, carvel, cellar, claver, eclair, lacier, recall, villae. | |
-3 letters: aiver, alive, areic, ariel, calve, carle, carve, caver, cavie, cavil, cella, celli, ceria, clave, clavi, clear, crave, erica, ervil, ileac, ileal, iller, lacer, laver, lilac, liver, livre, ravel, relic, rille, rival, velar, vicar, viler, villa, viral. | |
-4 letters: acre, alec, aril, aver. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-r-v" | |
+1 letter: cavillers, varicella. | |
+2 letters: cavalierly, varicellas, vertically, victualler, viscerally, vorticella. | |
+3 letters: intervallic, lucratively, overcalling, vectorially, veridically, viceregally, victuallers, vorticellae, vorticellas. | |
+4 letters: curveballing, revictualled, surveillance, verticillate. | |
+5 letters: circumvallate, collaborative, correlatively, declaratively, revictualling, surveillances, ultraviolence. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 76 69 6C 6C 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ...- .. .-.. .-.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110110 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a v i l l e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0076 0069 006C 006C 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767887578787184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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