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