Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PET'TI-FOG
PET'TI-FOG, v.i. [Fr. petit, small, and voguer, to row. But in Norman, voguer is rendered to call again, to return, as if from L. voco, like advocate.]
To do small business; as a lawyer. [Vulgar.]
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