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chaffer

verbnoun
Quick answer

As a verb, chaffer means haggle or barter. As a noun, it means bargaining.

Meanings of chaffer

7 meanings

verb

  1. To haggle or barter.

  2. To buy.

  3. To talk much and idly; to chatter.

  4. Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

    “Let's not haggle over a few dollars”

    Similar: haggle, higgle, huckster

  5. Talk socially without exchanging too much information

    “the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”

    Similar: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat

noun

  1. Bargaining; merchandise

  2. agricultureThe upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

All synonyms for chaffer →
verb: wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
hagglehigglehuckster
verb: talk socially without exchanging too much information
chew the fatshoot the breezechatconfabulateconfabchitchatchit-chatchatter

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