CHAFFER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Talk socially without exchanging too much information

Example:

the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

Synonyms:

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

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