Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a palterly manner.
  • Mean; paltry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Obs. or Prov. Eng. Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Mean; paltry.

Etymologies

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From *palter ("a rag, worthless thing"), from Middle Low German palter ("rag, cloth"). More at paltry.

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Examples

  • It is instead of a wedding dinner for his daughter, whom I saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet that her servant had given her, and ugly she is, as heart can wish.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 50: February 1666-67 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • It is instead of a wedding dinner for his daughter, whom I saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet that her servant had given her, and ugly she is, as heart can wish.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • It is instead of a wedding dinner for his daughter, whom I saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet that her servant had given her, and ugly she is, as heart can wish.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • It is instead of a wedding dinner for his daughter, whom I saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet that her servant had given her, and ugly she is, as heart can wish.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, February 1666/67 Pepys, Samuel 1667

  • But we have 'paltering' and 'palterly'.p. 232 _Hoggerds.

    The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664

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