chaffer
Plural: chaffers
Verb
Verb Forms: chaffered, chaffering, chaffers
- To negotiate or haggle over the price of something; to bargain.
- wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- To haggle or barter.
- To buy.
- To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Noun
- bargaining; merchandise
- A person's mouth.
- The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed
- A person who or thing that chaffs.
Examples
- I tried to CHAFFER for a better score, but the Scrabble rules are absolute.
- Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English chaffare (“bargain, trade”, noun), equivalent to cheap + fare.
Synonyms
chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, haggle, higgle, huckster, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit, bargain, barter, negotiate
Scrabble Score: 18
chaffer: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordchaffer: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
chaffer: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary