haffle

== English == === Etymology === Compare German haften (“to cling, stick to; (dialect) to stop, stammer”). === Verb === haffle (third-person singular simple present haffles, present participle haffling, simple past and past participle haffled) (UK, dialect) To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate. === References === “haffle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.