chaffering

English

Verb

chaffering

1. present participle of chaffer

Noun

chaffering (plural chafferings)

1. The act of one who chaffers.
   • Washington Irving

     You have put my writings into circulation, and arranged the pecuniary concerns in such a way as to save future trouble and petty chafferings about accounts, and to give the whole an independent and gentlemanlike air.

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:

     The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.