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Chaffer   Listen
verb
Chaffer  v. i.  (past & past part. chaffered; pres. part. chaffering)  
1.
To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. "To chaffer for preferments with his gold."
2.
To talk much and idly; to chatter.






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"Chaffer" Quotes from Famous Books



... housewives to bring out their old rags and bottles and bones. Mark felt the thrill of trade and traffick, and he longed to be big enough to open the window and call out that he had several rags and bottles and bones to sell; but instead he had to be content with watching two self-important little girls chaffer on behalf of their mothers, and go off counting their pennies. The voice of the rag-and-bone man, grew fainter and fainter round corners out of sight; Lima Street became as empty and uninteresting as the nursery. Mark wished that a knife-grinder would come along and ...
— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie

... furiously over the gallery railing, flourishing shirts, stockings, and garments of every kind, mentionable and unmentionable, in the faces of the gaping loafers below. Sometimes a particular "lot" will attract the attention of a spectator, and he will chaffer about it for a while; but the sales do not often appear to be very brisk. The people one sees in these places are very characteristic of the Bowery. Many of them are what the police call "hard cases,"—men, with ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various

... may trust Herodotus, was careful to avoid debt. He had a keen sense of the difficulty with which a debtor escapes subterfuge and equivocation—forms, slightly disguised, of lying. To buy and sell wares in a market place, to chaffer and haggle over prices, was distasteful to him, as apt to involve falsity and unfairness. He was free and open in speech, bold in act, generous, warm-hearted, hospitable. His chief faults were an addiction to self-indulgence and luxury, a passionate abandon to the feeling of the hour, ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia • George Rawlinson



Words linked to "Chaffer" :   chitchat, visit, higgle, haggle, schmooze, natter, chit-chat, dicker, chew the fat, shoot the breeze, shmooze, chatter, shmoose, jawbone, bargain, jaw, chat, schmoose



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