palterer
(ˈpɔːltərə(r))
Also 6–7 paltrer.
[f. prec. + -er1.]
One who palters; an equivocator; a shuffler; one who plays fast and loose; a haggler, a huckster; a trifler (with serious matters).
| 1589 J. Rider Bibl. Schol., A Palterer, sordidus, vide dodger. 1598 Florio, Miseróne, a chuffe..a pinch-penny, a paltrer, a penie-father. 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe 7 There be of you..that will account me a paltrer for hanging out the signe of the redde herring in my titlepage and no such feast towards for ought you can see. 1642 Rogers Naaman 564 Turn our eyes off from all slighters and paltrers with God. 1819 Shelley Cenci iv. i, Vile palterer with the sacred truth of God. 1860 Motley Netherl. (1868) I. i. 20 The well-known voice, which had so often silenced the Flemish palterers and intriguers. |