palterer
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
palterer (plural palterers)
- One who palters.
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 7:
- There be of you it may be, that will account me a paltrer, for hanging out the ſigne of the redde Herring in my title page, and no ſuch feaſt towards for ought you can ſee.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:palterer.
Translations edit
one who palters