palter

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɒltə/|/ˈpɔːltə/    美 /ˈpɔl.tɚ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.
    — Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter.
  2. To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.; To give a false impression by selective use of true but misleading statements.
  3. To trifle. archaic
    — Palter out your time in the penal statutes.
  4. 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".
  5. To babble; to chatter.

词形变化

palters present,singular,third-person paltering participle,present paltered participle,past paltered past paulter alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
palterer

词源

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