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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



... still three hundred dollars left, so he put them into his pocket, and set out on his way. So, when he had walked a while, he met a man with a tidy horse, and he wanted to buy it, and began to chaffer with the man. ...
— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent



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



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