Sekirov Dictionary

chaffer

UK /ˈtʃæfə/US /ˈt͡ʃæfɚ/

verb 3
noun 4
forms 3

verb3

•
To haggle or barter.
- To chaffer for preferment with his gold. — 1700
•
(informal) To talk much and idly; to chatter.
- The Dartie within him made him chaffer for five minutes with young Padwick concerning the favourite for the Cambridgeshire. — 1922
To buy.

noun4

•
Bargaining; merchandise.
- vittels, and other chaffer and merchandize were excéeding cheape: for at London a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings — 1577
•
The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.
- A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff. — 2003
A person who or thing that chaffs.
•
(slang, no longer used) A person's mouth.
- Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.

forms

chaffered · chaffering · chaffers

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