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1. To treat or dispute about a purchase;
to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.

To chaffer for preferments with his
gold.

Dryden.

2. To talk much and idly; to
chatter. Trench.

Chaf"fer, v. t. 1.
To buy or sell; to trade in.

He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were
set.

Spenser.

2. To exchange; to bandy, as words.
Spenser.

Chaf"fer*er (?), n. One who
chaffers; a bargainer.

Chaf"fern (?), n. [See
Chafe, v. t.] A vessel for heating
water. [Obs.] Johnson.

Chaf"fer*y, n. Traffic;
bargaining. [Obs.] Spenser.

Chaf"finch (?), n. [Cf. Chiff-
chaff.] (Zoöl.) A bird of Europe
(Fringilla cœlebs), having a variety of very sweet
songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper
finch.

Chaff"ing (?), n. The use of
light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery;
banter.


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