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chaffer
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t?æf?/
- (US) enPR: ch?f??r, IPA(key): /?t?æf?/
- Rhymes: -æf?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English chapfare (“bargain, trade”, noun), equivalent to cheap + fare.
Verb
chaffer (third-person singular simple present chaffers, present participle chaffering, simple past and past participle chaffered)
- (intransitive) To haggle or barter.
- To chaffer for preferment with his gold.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
- But the people looked much like Caleb’s own. They wore dirty robes, chaffered at fruit stalls, spat, scratched.
- (transitive) To buy.
- To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Synonyms
- bargain
- barter
- haggle
- negotiate
Translations
Noun
chaffer
- bargaining; merchandise
Translations
Etymology 2
From chaff +? -er
Noun
chaffer (plural chaffers)
- (agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed
Coordinate terms
- blower
- cleaning sieve
Translations
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??af?r/
Verb
chaffer
- Aspirate mutation of caffer.
Mutation
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caffer
English
Noun
caffer (plural caffers)
- Obsolete spelling of kaffir
Anagrams
- caffre
Welsh
Alternative forms
- (imperative): caer
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kaf?r/
Verb
caffer
- (literary) impersonal present subjunctive of cael
- (literary) impersonal imperative of cael
Mutation
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