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chaffer

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Noun, Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)

HYPHEN

chaf=fer

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb chaffer has 2 senses

chaffer(v = verb.possession) haggle, higgle, huckster - wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's not haggle over a few dollars"

is one way to bargain, dicker

Sample sentences:
The glass tubes chaffer
Sam wants to chaffer with Sue

chaffer(v = verb.communication) chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit - talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"

is one way to converse, discourse

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

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CIDE DICTIONARY

chaffer, n.

One who chaffs. [1913 Webster]

chaffer, n. [OE. chaffare, cheapfare; AS. ceáp a bargain, price + faru a journey; hence, originally, a going to barain, to market. See Cheap, and Fare.].

Bargaining; merchandise. Holished. [1913 Webster]

chaffer, v. i. [OE. chaffaren, fr. chaffare, chapfare, cheapfare, a bargaining. See Chaffer, n.].

To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. [1913 Webster]
"To chaffer for preferments with his gold." [1913 Webster]
To talk much and idly; to chatter. Trench. [1913 Webster]

chaffer, v. t.

To buy or sell; to trade in. [1913 Webster]
"He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set." [1913 Webster]
To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

chaffer, v. & n.
--v.intr. haggle; bargain.
--n. bargaining; haggling.

Derivative

chafferer n.

Etymology

ME f. OE ceapfaru f. ceap bargain + faru journey

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ROGET THESAURUS

chaffer

Barter

VB barter, exchange, swap, swop, truck, scorse, interchange, commutate, compound for, trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate, carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade, be in business, be in the city, keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in, trade with, deal with, have dealings with, transact business with, do business with, open an account with, keep an account with, bargain, drive a bargain, make a bargain, negotiate, bid for, haggle, higgle, dicker, chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down, stickle, stickle for, out bid, under bid, ask, charge, strike a bargain, speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring, buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market, buy low and sell high, corner the market, rig the market, stag the market.