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chaffer verb [ ˈtʃafə ]

• haggle about the terms of an agreement or price of something.
• "I chaffered in the bazaars for objects I wanted"

chaffer noun

• haggling about the price of something.
Origin: Middle English (in the sense ‘trade or trading’): from Old English cēap ‘a bargain’ + faru ‘journey’; probably influenced by Old Norse kaupfǫr .


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