Palter

Definition: Palter

Palter

Verb

1. Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.

Date "palter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

Synonyms: Palter

Synonyms: equivocate (v), prevaricate (v), tergiversate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Falsehood	Prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.
Irresolution	Shuffle, palter, blink; trim.
Nonobservance	Retract, go back from, be off, forfeit, go from one's word, palter; stretch a point, strain a point.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Palter

English words defined with "palter": Paltered. (references)

Specialty definitions using "palter": JESTER. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears. The widow-queen of Portugal Had an audacious jester Who entered the confessional Disguised, and there confessed her. "Father," she said, "thine ear bend down -- My sins are more than scarlet: I love my fool -- blaspheming clown, And common, base-born varlet." "Daughter," the mimic priest replied, "That sin, indeed, is awful: The church's pardon is denied To love that is unlawful. "But since thy stubborn heart will be For him forever pleading, Thou'dst better make him, by decree, A man of birth and breeding." She made the fool a duke, in hope With Heaven's taboo to palter; Then told a priest, who told the Pope, Who damned her from the altar! Barel Dort
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "palter": palter with. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "palter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), luaj (act, come, enact, fidget with, fool about, fool around, game, interpret, perform, personate, play, playact, toy, twiddle, wiggle, wriggle), dredhoj në fjalë. (various references)

Arabic		‏ساوم (bargain, haggle, huckster, trade), ‏عبث (dalliance, fiddlestick, flightiness, flirtation, frivolity, futility, loiter, mess up, moonshine, mosey, piddle, piffling, pointless, potter, shallowness, toy, trifle, twiddle), ‏راوغ (dodge, elude, equivocate, fudge, prevaricate, quibble, rip off, squirm, weasel). (various references)

Bulgarian		усуквам (convolve, equivocate, lay, strand, tergiversate, throw, twist), споря (altercate, argue, cample, contend, contest, debate, dispute, expostulate, higgle, jar, polemize), хитрувам (dodge, finesse), припирам се. (various references)

Czech		přít se (contest, dispute, quarrel, spar, wrangle), zahrávat si (trifle), vykrucovat se (prevaricate), smlouvat (bargain, chaffer, conventionalize, haggle), handrkovat se (haggle, higgle). (various references)

Finnish		kieroilla (scheme). (various references)

French		tergiverser, marchander, lanterner. (various references)

German		schachern (haggle, to palter). (various references)

Greek		παιδιαρίζω (niggle, piddle), υπεκφεύγω (dodge, elude, evade, fudge, prevaricate, quibble, shift, shuffle, shun, tergiversate), δολιεύομαι. (various references)

Hebrew		ל� �"ו�' בקלות �"עת. (various references)

Hungarian		köntörfalaz (to palter, to prevaricate, to shuffle, to tergiversate, to wiggle, to wriggle). (various references)

Italian		truffare (cheat, deceive, defraud, fudge, swindle), mercanteggiare (bargain, chaffer, deal, Dicker, haggle, sell, speculate, trade, traffic). (various references)

Pig Latin		alterpay.(various references)

Portuguese		tornar paralítico (paralysis, paramagnetic), simular (affect, assume, camouflage, counterfeit, feign, feigned, feldspar, make believe, play actor, pretend, purport, put on, sham, simulate), não ser sincero, fingir (assume, attitudinize, counterfeit, dissemble, double bed, feign, feint, imitate, make believe, play act, pose, pretend, put on, sham, simulate), barganhar (bargain, swindle, trade). (various references)

Romanian		privi cu uşurinţã (palter with), privi cu neseriozitate (palter with), vorbi în echivocuri (equivocate, palter with), ticlui (concoct, devise, make up, palter with), se tocmi (bargain for, higgle, palter with, shilly shally), se târgui cu (dicker with, palter with), se purta necinstit (palter with, play smb. foul), fi nesincer cu (palter with), denatura (angle, denaturalize, denature, distort, falsify, give false colour to, mangle, misrepresent, palter with, pervert, sophisticate, torture, transfigure, warp, wrest). (various references)

Russian		торговаться (bargain, chaffer, dicker, drive a hard bargain, haggle, higgle), кривить душой (prevaricate, speak against one's convictions), заниматься пустяками (dally, niggle, peddle, piddle, piddled, trifle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		izvrdavati (elude, evade, parry, prevaricate), cenkati se, blebetati (gab, waffle), šegačiti se (banter, joke, lark). (various references)

Spanish		tergiversar a (garble, misinterpret, misrepresent), regatear a (begrudge), no tomar en serio. (various references)

Swedish		krångla (act up, bitch, bother, conk, give trouble, trouble), huttla, handskas lättvindigt, använda knepp. (various references)

Turkish		savsaklamak (delay, omit, put off), oyun etmek (deceive, hoax, hocus, play a trick, play a trick on smb., play smb. a trick, pull a fast one, trick), ciddiye almamak (extenuate, not to take seriously), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cheat, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, fake, feint, finagle, Fox, gammon, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize). (various references)

Ukranian		хитрувати, торгуватися (bargain, barter, cheapen, haggle, higgle, prig), займатися дрібницями (dally, niggle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "palter": paltered, palterer, palterers, paltering, palters. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Palter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apter, malter, palear, paleor, palera, paleta, Palheiro, palte, palyer, Panter, Parter, Patar, patera, Patley, patzer, Paulter, pelte, pelten, Pelter, peltier, peltre, Pfauter, pilier, pilotari, Piltzer, plafter, plager, plaqer, plaret, Plater, Playter, pollter, polte, Valtre. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: plater.
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: alert, alter, apter, artel, later, leapt, lepta, paler, palet, parle, pater, pearl, peart, petal, plate, pleat, prate, ratel, taler, taper, tepal.
	-2 letters: aper, earl, late, leap, lear, lept, pale, pare, part, pate, peal, pear, peat, pelt, pert, plat, plea, prat, rale, rape, rapt, rate, real, reap, tael, tale, tape, tare, tarp, teal, tear, tela, tepa, trap.
	-3 letters: ale, alp, alt, ape, apt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, lap, lar, lat, lea, let, pal, par, pat, pea, per, pet, rap, rat, rep, ret, tae, tap, tar, tea, tel.
	-4 letters: ae, al, ar, at, el, er, et, la, pa, pe, re, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: apteral, palters, partlet, peartly, persalt, petrale, peytral, plaiter, planter, plaster, platers, platier, platter, pleater, plectra, prattle, prelate, prolate, psalter, pteryla, replant, replate, stapler, templar, trample.
	+2 letters: calypter, dipteral, interlap, lakeport, livetrap, malapert, palestra, paltered, palterer, paltrier, parental, parietal, parlante, partible, particle, partlets, patellar, paternal, pearlite, pectoral, persalts, petiolar, petrales, petrosal, peytrals, pilaster, placater, plaister, plaiters, plankter, planters, plasters, plastery, platters, pleaters, plethora, polestar, portable, portaled, praelect, prattled, prattler, prattles, preadult, preallot, prelates, prelatic, prenatal, preplant, pretrial, psalters, psaltery, pterylae, pubertal, replants, replated, replates, reptilia, sceptral, spectral, splatter, sprattle, staplers, templars, temporal, trampled, trampler, tramples, traplike, trapline, tripedal, triplane.
	+3 letters: acropetal, afterclap, allotrope, applecart, atemporal, calypters, doorplate, drawplate, implanter, interlaps, interplay, lakeports, lapstrake, livetraps, malaperts, operantly, overleapt, overplant, painterly, palaestra, palestrae, palestras, palterers, paltering, paltriest, parietals, particles, pastorale, patrolled, patroller, patrolmen, pearliest, pearlites, pearlitic, pectorals, peculator, percolate, perinatal, periplast, perpetual, pilasters, placaters, plaisters, planetary, plankters, plastered, plasterer, plethoras, polestars, polywater, portables, praelects, prattlers, preallots, prebattle, precoital, prelature, preputial, pretravel, pretrials, prevalent, printable, privately, psalteria, psaltries, reimplant, repellant, replanted, replaster, replating, replicate, reptilian, reputable, reputably, saltpeter, saprolite, splatters, sporulate, sprattled, sprattles, strapless, telegraph, temporals, tramplers, traplines, triplanes, ultrapure.
	+4 letters: afterclaps, allotropes, altarpiece, apiculture, apparently, applecarts, archetypal, biparental, birthplace, blastopore, campestral, carpellate, coleoptera, colportage, depilatory, deportable, doorplates, drawplates, epicentral, epistolary, explicator, exportable, extemporal, grapholect, graptolite, heptachlor, hypaethral, hyperalert, impartible, implanters, importable, interplant, interplays, interplead, intraplate, malapertly, metacarpal, operculate, outsparkle, overplants, palaestrae, palaestras, palletizer, paltriness, parentally, parenteral, parentless, parimutuel, parliament, participle, pastorales, paternally, patrollers, peculators, penetrable, penetralia, perceptual, percolated, percolates, percolator, perfoliate, periosteal, periplasts, peritoneal, permutable, personalty, petrolatum, phylactery, plaistered, planetaria, planimeter, plasterers, plastering, platemaker, platterful, pleasanter, pleasantry, polarities, polywaters, portabella, portabello, praelected, praetorial, pratincole, preethical, prefrontal, pregenital, pregnantly, prelatures, premarital, prenatally, prenuptial, prevalents, profitable, profligate, promotable, promulgate, propellant, protonemal, prudential, psalteries, psalterium, pyrolysate, pyrolyzate, quadruplet, rattletrap, receptacle, reimplants, repeatable, repeatedly, repellants, replanting, replasters, replicated, replicates, replicator, repopulate, reportable, reptilians, saltpeters, saprolites, separately, slipstream, sparkliest, spectrally, speculator, spermatial, sphalerite, splattered, sporulated, sporulates, sprawliest, stepladder, streetlamp, strippable, supplanter, telegraphs, telegraphy, temperable, temporally, terneplate, tetraploid, trampoline, transeptal, treponemal, tripletail, triplicate, wentletrap.
	+5 letters: acropetally, allopatries, allotropies, altarpieces, antileprosy, apartmental, apicultures, bipartitely, birthplaces, blastopores, blastospore, boilerplate, breastplate, caterpillar, centripetal, coleopteran, colportages, copperplate, corporately, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, desperately, diphtherial, disparately, exculpatory, exemplarity, explanatory, explicators, explicatory, exploration, explorative, exploratory, extrapolate, grapholects, graptolites, heptachlors, hypocentral, hypothermal, imperialist, interlapped, interplants, interplayed, interpleads, interpolate, ipsilateral, lamplighter, lepidoptera, lepromatous, leptospiral, letterspace, livetrapped, lycanthrope, malpractice, marketplace, metacarpals, multiplayer, narcoleptic, nontemporal, operability, operational, operatively, operculated, outsparkled, outsparkles, overplanted, palletizers, palmistries, pamphleteer, parliaments, participles, particulate, partitively, partnerless, pastureland, patelliform, paternalism, paternalist, patrilineal, patternless, pearlescent, peculiarity, pentahedral, perambulate, perchlorate, percolating, percolation, percolators, perinatally, periodontal, peristalses, peristalsis, peristaltic, peristomial, perithecial, permanently, perpetually, personalist, personality, perturbable, petrodollar, petrolatums, phalanstery, plaistering, planarities, planetarium, planimeters, planimetric, plantigrade, plasterings, plasterwork, plasticizer, platemakers, plateresque, platterfuls, plattersful, platyrrhine, plecopteran, pleinairist, pluralities, polarimeter, polarimetry, polysorbate, portabellas, portabellos, practicable, praelecting, pratincoles, preallotted, precritical, predictable, predictably, predoctoral, prefectural, prefrontals, prelibation, preliterary, preliterate, prematurely, preplanting, prepubertal, presentable, presentably, preterminal, prevalently, preventable, primalities, privatively, problematic, profligates, projectable, proletarian, proletariat, proliferate, promulgated, promulgates, propellants, prophetical, protectoral, protoplanet, protractile, proximately, pterodactyl, purpleheart, pyrolysates, pyrolyzates, quadruplets, rataplanned, rattletraps, realpolitik, receptacles, reduplicate, reimplanted, repentantly, replacement, replastered, replicating, replication, replicative, replicators, repopulated, repopulates, reportorial, repugnantly, respectable, respectably, sempiternal, shinplaster, slipstreams, spectacular, specularity, speculators, sphalerites, spheroplast, spirochetal, splattering, sporulative, stepladders, straplesses, streetlamps, superaltern, superlative, supplanters, supportable, telegraphed, telegrapher, telegraphic, temperately, temporality, temporalize, temporarily, terneplates, tetraploids, tetraploidy, thunderclap, timepleaser, trampoliner, trampolines, transalpine, trapezoidal, tripletails, triplicated, triplicates, tropicalize, ultrasimple, uniparental, unprintable, wentletraps, zooplankter.
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