Meaning & use
Chaffer
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To haggle or bargain persistently over the price or terms of something.
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The traders chaffered over the price of silk in the crowded marketplace.
It took nearly an hour of chaffering before the two merchants agreed on a fair price.
A note on using this word
Chaffer is an older word, now mostly literary, closely related in meaning to 'haggle' and once also meant idle chatter.
Words with a similar meaning
hagglebargain
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