haffle

English

Etymology

Compare German haften (“to cling, stick to; (dialect) to stop, stammer”).

Verb

haffle (third-person singular simple present haffles, present participle haffling, simple past and past participle haffled)

1. (Britain, dialect) To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for haffle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)