chaffer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæfə/
• enPR: chăfʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæfɚ/
• Rhymes: -æfə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English chapfare (“bargain, trade”, noun), equivalent to cheap + fare.

Verb

chaffer (third-person singular simple present chaffers, present participle chaffering, simple past and past participle chaffered)

1. (intransitive) To haggle or barter.
   • Dryden

     To chaffer for preferments with his gold.

   • 1866, “Mr. Dod's Six Shots”, in Harper's Magazine‎^[1], volume 32, page 208:

     While he is at the front end selling calico to some wearisome old lady, sunbonneted and chaffering, a mischievous boy is very apt to be pocketing lumps of sugar for profit, or starting the faucet of a molasses barrel for fun at the other.

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     But the people looked much like Caleb’s own. They wore dirty robes, chaffered at fruit stalls, spat, scratched.

2. (transitive) To buy.
3. To talk much and idly; to chatter.

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Synonyms

• bargain
• barter
• haggle
• negotiate

Translations

haggle or barter

• Bulgarian: пазаря се (pazarja se)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: tinkiä (fi)

Noun

chaffer

1. bargaining; merchandise

Translations

bargaining; merchandise

• Bulgarian: пазарлък (bg) m (pazarlǎk)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

1. (Can we find and add a quotation of Holinshed to this entry?)

Etymology 2

From chaff +‎ -er

Noun

chaffer (plural chaffers)

1. (agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed

Coordinate terms

• blower
• cleaning sieve

Translations

upper sieve of a cleaning shoe

• Finnish: yläseula
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Obersieb n

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈχafɛr/

Verb

chaffer

1. Aspirate mutation of caffer.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
caffer	gaffer	nghaffer	chaffer
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.