hafter

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] German haften (“to cling or stick to”), and English haffle.

Noun

hafter (plural hafters)

1. (obsolete) A caviler; a wrangler.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “hafter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Preposition

hafter

1. Eye dialect spelling of after.

Contraction

hafter

1. (informal) Contraction of have to.

Anagrams

• Father, afther, fareth, father, trefah