Chaffer

Quick meaning: Chaffer is a verb meaning (intransitive) To haggle or barter.

Meaning

(intransitive) To haggle or barter.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To buy.
2. (informal, intransitive) To talk much and idly; to chatter.
3. (uncountable) Bargaining; merchandise.
4. (countable, slang, obsolete) A person's mouth.
5. (agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.
6. A person who or thing that chaffs.

Example Sentences

To chaffer for preferment with his gold.

Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.

A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.

But the people looked much like Caleb’s own. They wore dirty robes, chaffered at fruit stalls, spat, scratched.

Word Forms

• chaffers
• chaffering
• chaffered

Synonyms for chaffer

Depending on context, synonyms include bargain, negotiate, haggle, barter, blower, chatter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dicker, haggle, higgle, visit, huckster, confab.

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