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haffles

haffles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of haffle.

Meaning of haffle

Verb

haffle (third-person singular simple present haffles, present participle haffling, simple past and past participle haffled)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate.
    • the clergy were haffling and timid1840, James Everett, Wesleyan Takings

Questions about haffles

What is haffles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Haffles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of haffle.

Words near haffles in the dictionary

  1. haffit
  2. haffits
  3. Haffkinized
  4. haffle
  5. haffled
  6. haffles
  7. haffling
  8. Haffner
  9. Haffners
  10. Hafford
  11. Haffords

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