noun
- bargaining; haggling.
verb (used without object)
- to bargain; haggle: to chaffer over a price.
- to bandy words; chatter: to chaffer about nothing in particular.
verb (used with object)
- to bandy (words).
- Obsolete. to trade or deal in; barter.
noun
- a person who chaffs or banters.
verb
- (intr) to haggle or bargain
- to chatter, talk, or say idly; bandy (words)
- (tr) obsolete to deal in; barter
noun
- haggling or bargaining
“a bargain,” early 13c., cheffare “buying and selling,” also (14c.) cheapfare, probably from Old English ceap “bargain, traffic, gain, sale” (see cheap) + faru “faring, going” (see fare (n.)). In later use, “haggling.” The verb is recorded from mid-14c.