单词 | haffle |
释义 | hafflev. dialect. intransitive. To speak in a hesitant or stammering manner; to prevaricate, shilly-shally. Cf. caffle v. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > speak inarticulately or with a defect [verb (intransitive)] > stammer or speak hesitantly stammerc1000 wlaffe1025 stotec1325 humc1374 mafflea1387 stut1388 rattlea1398 famble14.. mammera1425 drotec1440 falterc1440 stackerc1440 hem1470 wallowa1475 tattle1481 mant1506 happer1519 trip1526 hobblea1529 hack1553 stagger1565 faffle1570 stutter1570 hem and hawk1588 ha1604 hammer1619 titubate1623 haw1632 fork1652 hacker1652 lispc1680 hesitate1706 balbutiate1731 haffle1790 hotter1828 stutter1831 ah1853 catch1889 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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