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CHAFFER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Talk socially without exchanging too much information
Example:
the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
Synonyms:
chaffer; chat; chatter; chew the fat; chit-chat; chitchat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "chaffer" is one way to...):
converse; discourse (carry on a conversation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chaffer"):
jawbone; schmoose; schmooze; shmoose; shmooze (talk idly or casually and in a friendly way)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
Example:
Let's not haggle over a few dollars
Synonyms:
chaffer; haggle; higgle; huckster
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "chaffer" is one way to...):
bargain; dicker (negotiate the terms of an exchange)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chaffer"):
bargain down; beat down (persuade the seller to accept a lower price)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence examples:
The glass tubes chaffer
Sam wants to chaffer with Sue
