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
"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 Edward Frederick Knight
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 Charles James Lever
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
To an Englishman who has not travelled in the States and become familiar with the methods employed there by business men, it seems odd that anyone should chaffer with the clerk at a ticket-office.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts
