caffle

English

Etymology

Alteration of cavil.

Pronunciation

Verb

caffle (third-person singular simple present caffles, present participle caffling, simple past and past participle caffled)

  1. (dialectal, Northern England, Ireland) to wrangle, to argue
  2. (dialectal, Northern England, Ireland) to wrangle, to entangle
  3. (dialectal, Northern England, Ireland) to cheat

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Welsh: cafflo (“to cheat”)

Further reading

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