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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



... and equals; and the Auckland shopman meets his customer with a shake of the hand, and a pleasant hail-fellow-well-met style of manner. Not but what all the tricks of trade are fully understood at the Antipodes, and the Aucklander can chaffer and haggle, and drive as hard a bargain as his fellow across the seas; only his way of doing it ...
— Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) - or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand • William Delisle Hay


Words linked to "Chaffer" :   chew the fat, gossip, confab, shoot the breeze, chatter, huckster, bargain, confabulate, beat down, bargain down, dicker, shmoose, converse, higgle, jaw, haggle, shmooze, natter, chitchat, discourse, claver, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone, chit-chat, visit


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