different between chaffer vs chamfer

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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To buy.
3. To talk much and idly; to chatter.

Synonyms

• bargain
• barter
• haggle
• negotiate

Translations

Noun

chaffer

1. bargaining; merchandise

Translations

Etymology 2

From chaff +? -er

Noun

chaffer (plural chaffers)

1. (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

1. Aspirate mutation of caffer.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle French chanfraindre (modern French chanfreiner).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?æm.f?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??æm.f?/

Noun

chamfer (plural chamfers)

1. An obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.

   Synonyms: round, bevel

   Antonym: fillet

Translations

Verb

chamfer (third-person singular simple present chamfers, present participle chamfering, simple past and past participle chamfered)

1. (transitive) To cut off the edge or corner of something.

   Synonym: bevel

2. (transitive) To cut a groove in something.

   Synonym: flute

Translations

Further reading

• chamfer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “chamfer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

References