Learned a new word today

[david_carnell]

As in the "spoils of war".... cool.

[El Pibe]

ter?giv?er?sate (tr-jvr-st, t?rj-vr-)

intr.v. ter?giv?er?sat?ed, ter?giv?er?sat?ing, ter?giv?er?sates

1. To use evasions or ambiguities; equivocate.

2. To change sides; apostatize.

The context was the second meaning "Count Robert of Alen?on triggered further tergiversations with his change of alleigance to Phillip"

total false friend in Spanish

tergiversaci?n

f. Interpretaci?n err?nea de una palabra o de un suceso.

All from Latin: tergiversor - To turn one's back, from Tergum, hind part.

So figuratively it's to do a moonie?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Did Count Robert get married with 20,000 other couples?

[El Pibe]

Has tergiversado?