haffle
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare German haften (“to cling, stick to; (dialect) to stop, stammer”).
Verb[edit]
haffle (third-person singular simple present haffles, present participle haffling, simple past and past participle haffled)
- (UK, dialect) To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate.
- {quote-book|en|1840|James Everett|Wesleyan Takings|passage=the clergy were haffling and timid}}
References[edit]
- haffle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.