Haffled vs Raffled - What's the difference?
haffled | raffled |
(haffle)
(UK, dialect) To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate.
(raffle)
A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
(obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.
To participate in a raffle.
As verbs the difference between haffled and raffled
is that haffled is past tense of haffle while raffled is past tense of raffle.haffled
English
Verb
(head)haffle
English
Verb
(haffl)- (Halliwell)
raffled
English
Verb
(head)raffle
English
Noun
(en noun)- He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
- (Cotgrave)
Derived terms
* meat raffleVerb
- They raffled off four gift baskets.
- to raffle for a watch