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Chaffer

verb

(past & past part. chaffered; pres. part. chaffering)

1.

Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.). Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster.

2.

Talk socially without exchanging too much information. Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit.

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"Chaffer" Quotes from Famous Books

... And all the host sat down to watch you twain Do battle, which should have me. For my part, They took me forth to watch; as in the mart A heifer feels the giver of the feast Pinch in her flank, and hears the chaffer twist This way and that for so much fat or lean— Even so was I, a queen, child of a queen." She bit her lip until the blood ran free, And in her eyes he markt deep injury Scald as the salt tears welled; but "Listen yet," She said: "Ye ...

— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett

Words linked to "Chaffer" : shmoose, shmooze, beat down, jawbone, schmoose, confabulate, discourse, bargain down, schmooze, chew the fat, converse, dicker, bargain

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