| Palter 1. (v. i.) To haggle. 2. (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle. 3. (v. i.) To babble; to chatter. 4. (v. t.) To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things. Thesaurus Entries around the bush, back and fill, bargain, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, chaffer, choplogic, dicker, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, falsify, fence, fib, hedge, hem and haw, higgle, huckster, hum and haw, lie, mince the truth, mince words, mystify, nitpick, obscure, parry, pick nits, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, shift, shuffle, shy, sidestep, split hairs, tergiversate, waffle, weasel |