chaffer Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
    higgle; haggle; huckster.
    • Let's not haggle over a few dollars
  2. verb talk socially without exchanging too much information
    shoot the breeze; chit-chat; chew the fat; confab; chitchat; jaw; claver; visit; chat; natter; gossip; chatter; confabulate.
    • the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

WordNet

Chaff"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who chaffs.
Chaf"fer noun
Etymology
OE. chaffare, cheapfare; AS. ceáp a bargain, price + faru a journey; hence, originally, a going to barain, to market. See Cheap, and Fare.
Definitions
  1. Bargaining; merchandise. Obs. Holished.
Chaf"fer intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. chaffaren, fr. chaffare, chapfare, cheapfare, a bargaining. See Chaffer, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Chaffered ; present participle & verbal noun Chaffering
Definitions
  1. To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.
    To chaffer for preferments with his gold. Dryden.
  2. To talk much and idly; to chatter. Trench.
Chaf"fer transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To buy or sell; to trade in.
    He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser.
  2. To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.

Webster 1913