chaffer
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Is chaffer a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of chaffer?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To haggle or barter.Examples: "To chaffer for preferment with his gold."; "Walter declined the invitation, precisely because he wanted a dinner. He was, also, conscious that he had made a very bad bargain; but how could he chaffer and dispute about things so precious as the contents of those pages which were the very outpourings of his heart?"; "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."Synonyms: bargain, negotiate, haggle, barterintransitive
2. (transitive) To buy.transitive
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) bargaining; merchandiseExamples: "vittels, and other chaffer and merchandize were excéeding cheape: for at London a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings"uncountable
2. (countable, slang, obsolete) A person's mouth.Examples: "Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink."countableobsoleteslang
noun (English)
1. (agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removedExamples: "A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff."
Definition source: Wiktionary