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单词 haffle
释义

hafflev.

/ˈhaf(ə)l/
Etymology: compare Dutch (local) haffelen (of a suckling baby) to pull and push at the breast; (of women) to talk a lot, argue.
dialect.
intransitive. To speak in a hesitant or stammering manner; to prevaricate, shilly-shally. Cf. caffle v.
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the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > speak inarticulately or with a defect [verb (intransitive)] > stammer or speak hesitantly
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1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Haffle, to prevaricate.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Haffle, to waver, to speak unintelligibly.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 39/1 Haffle, to stammer, to prevaricate, to falter.
1902 in E.D.D. s.v., [Nottingham] The doctor, he haffled and caffled, he didn't rightly know what war wrong wi' her himself.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Let. 3 Mar. (1962) I. 191 The Nottingham people are still haffling and caffling about the children.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 50 To think I should ha'e to haffle an' caffle Wi' a woman an' pay 'er a price.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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