(dialectal, Northern England) To prevaricate; to change one's mind.
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(dialectal, Northern England, Ireland) To entangle.
: Neither snow nor rain could prevent him from going, for he hated caffling.
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(dialectal, Northern England, Ireland) To wrangle, to argue, to quarrel.
1876, Memoir Rev. J. Gregory, page 25, quoted in the EDD:
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