Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of palter
nounpaltering (plural palterings)
plural palterings
- Prevarication; dishonest bargaining, haggling.
After an houres debating and paltring both parties will goe from their words and oaths for the getting or saving of a shilling[…].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear
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