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
Somehow, he and Thisbe drift off together, and Mamma, very portly and very voluble, is left to chaffer and sort and select alone.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
It would not cheapen in the chaffer; on the contrary, give him the usufruct for a few years, and he would be not only the happiest but the most considerable of men.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
"But I got to put that little chaffer to roost somewhere."
From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Anton Otto Fischer
It is cognate with cheap, chaffer, and Ger. kaufen, to buy, and probably comes from Lat. caupo, tavern keeper.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
