Meaning of caffle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To wrangle, to argue, to quarrel.
   Ireland, Northern-England, dialectal
2. To entangle.
   Ireland, Northern-England, dialectal
3. To prevaricate; to change one's mind.
   Northern-England, dialectal
4. To cheat.
   Ireland, Northern-England, dialectal

Examples

“Neither snow⟳ nor rain⟳ could prevent⟳ him from going, for he hated caffling.”

“Mr. W—, after some caffling, declared he did not say⟳ so and so.”

“An' he caffles, an' slews, an' weant saay nowt stright oot aboot munny; an' thaay niver gets to knaw how things is to be left.”

“He caffled a bit when he was afoore th' magistrates, bud it were to noä good.”

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