noun
Meaning 1
Bargaining; merchandise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
chaffer
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtʃæfə/
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US: chăfʹər
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US: /ˈt͡ʃæfɚ/
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rhymes with -æfə(ɹ)
noun
Meaning 2
A person's mouth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, slang
Examples
- Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: blower, cleaning sieve
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A person who or thing that chaffs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To haggle or barter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bargain, negotiate, haggle, barter
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To buy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
talk socially without exchanging too much information
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: converse, discourse
Narrower terms: shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone
verb
Meaning 9
wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Let's not haggle over a few dollars
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dicker, bargain
Narrower terms: beat down, bargain down
History
Etymology
From Middle English chaffare (“a bargain, a trade”, noun), equivalent to cheap + fare.
Etymology tree English chaff Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English chaffer From chaff + -er.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: пазарлък (pazarlǎk) — bargaining; merchandise
- Finnish: kaupittelu — bargaining; merchandise
- Finnish: kaupanhieronta — bargaining; merchandise
- Finnish: yläseula — upper sieve of a cleaning shoe
- German: Obersieb — upper sieve of a cleaning shoe
- Bulgarian: пазаря се (pazarja se) — haggle or barter
- Finnish: tinkiä — haggle or barter
- Turkish: pazarlık etmek — haggle or barter