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)

(UK, dialect) To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate.
- 1840, James Everett, Wesleyan Takings:
  the clergy were haffling and timid

References

“haffle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.