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Palter

//ˈpɔl.tɚ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.

    "Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter."

  2. 2
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information wordnet
  3. 3
    To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.; To give a false impression by selective use of true but misleading statements.
  4. 4
    To trifle. archaic

    "Palter out your time in the penal statutes."

  5. 5
    To haggle.

    "Herceler. Voyez to haggle, to dodge. N.b. Cotgrave defines herceler/harceler by example: "to haggle, hucke, hedge, or paulter long in the buying of commodity"."

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  1. 6
    To babble; to chatter.

Etymology

Probably from Middle English *palter (“rag, trifle, worthless thing”), from Middle Low German palter (“rag, cloth”). More at paltry.

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