CHAFFER
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)
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
Meaning:
Talk socially without exchanging too much information
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
chat; shoot the breeze; chew the fat; chitchat; claver; confab; natter; jaw; chaffer; gossip; confabulate; chatter; 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
