CHAFFER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chaffer mean? 

• CHAFFER (verb)
  The verb CHAFFER has 2 senses:

1. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

2. talk socially without exchanging too much information

  Familiarity information: CHAFFER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAFFER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

chaffer; haggle; higgle; huckster

Context example:

Let's not haggle over a few dollars

Hypernyms (to "chaffer" is one way to...):

bargain; dicker (negotiate the terms of an exchange)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chaffer"):

bargain down; beat down (persuade the seller to accept a lower price)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

The glass tubes chaffer
Sam wants to chaffer with Sue

Sense 2

Meaning:

Talk socially without exchanging too much information

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

chaffer; chat; chatter; chew the fat; chit-chat; chitchat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit

Context example:

the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

Hypernyms (to "chaffer" is one way to...):

converse; discourse (carry on a conversation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chaffer"):

jawbone; schmoose; schmooze; shmoose; shmooze (talk idly or casually and in a friendly way)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s