chaffer
Example Sentences
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There appraisers sit with ancient scales, chaffer to the utmost kran,* seal their purchase with a solemn glass of tea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, I’ll see: maybe I shall walk over one of these days and chaffer with him.
From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
"And, excuse me, sir; what pay will you give us?—not that I wish to chaffer with one who has come to my rescue in so generous a manner."
From A Desperate Voyage by Knight, Edward Frederick
To take a house, buy a horse, or hire a servant without the intervention of another man to disparage the article, chaffer over the price, and disgust the vendor, is an act of impetuous folly.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Lever, Charles James
The more usual term Chapman is cognate with cheap, chaffer, Chipping, Copenhagen, Ger. kaufen, to buy, etc.
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
