▪ I. † ˈpalterly, a. Obs. or dial.
[app. altered from paltry a., as if f. palter v. + -ly1.]
Paltry, mean, shabby.
| 1666–7 Pepys Diary 22 Feb., It is instead of a wedding-dinner for his daughter, whom I saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet. 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss., Palterley, Palterey, paltry. |
▪ II. † ˈpalterly, adv. Obs. rare—1.
In 7 paul-.
[irreg. f. palter v. + -ly2.]
In a paltering manner, shiftily, trickily.
| 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence, Eunuch i. ii. 120 Thou lewd woman,..dealing thus paulterly with me. |