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

I will not chaffer with him; he may have as much as he asks.

From Too Rich A Romance by Streckfuss, Adolph

He could not chaffer for terms with the tailor.

From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony

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