A slight complaint or criticism about something that is not important: Tony's only quibble about the new computer is that it's only slightly faster than the old one.

Cleo and Bette had quibbles about the bus being five minutes late because of the slow traffic.

1. To argue or to complain in a trivial or petty way: The computer programmer and his customer were quibbling about how parts of the program should function.
2. To present objections about insignificant things: People quibbled about the length of the speech and said nothing about its main content.

Shawn was quibbling about the amount that the bookstore was charging for the small publication.