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
Thou would not want me to chaffer with old women about geese-feathers and bird-eggs.
From Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
You have the strength, the courage, the brains—why chaffer when you have but to strike once to win all?
From The Doomsman by Van Tassel Sutphen
One least leaf plucked for chaffer from the bays Of their dear praise, One jot of their pure conquest put to hire, The implacable republic will require.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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
