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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