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▪ I. † ˈpalterly, a. Obs. or dial. [app. altered from paltry a., as if f. palter v. + -ly1.] Paltry, mean, shabby.
1666–7Pepys Diary 22 Feb., It is instead of a wedding-dinner for his daughter, whom I saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Palterley, Palterey, paltry. ▪ II. † ˈpalterly, adv. Obs. rare—1. In 7 paul-. [irreg. f. palter v. + -ly2.] In a paltering manner, shiftily, trickily.
1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Eunuch i. ii. 120 Thou lewd woman,..dealing thus paulterly with me. |