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paltering
paltering
English
Verb
paltering
- present participle of palter
Noun
paltering (plural palterings)
- Prevarication; dishonest bargaining, haggling.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.40:
- After an houres debating and paltring both parties will goe from their words and oaths for the getting or saving of a shilling […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.40: