Niggle: alternatives and connections

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

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To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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To engage in combat for; to strive for.

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That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.

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To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.

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Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.

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A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

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A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

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A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

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A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

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To clamor; to contest noisily.

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See 1st Frith.

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A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

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To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.

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

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To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

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