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chaffered

chaffered is the simple past and past participle of chaffer.

Meaning of chaffer

Verb

chaffer (third-person singular simple present chaffers, present participle chaffering, simple past and past participle chaffered)

  1. (intransitive) To haggle or barter.
    • To chaffer for preferment with his gold.1700, [John] Dryden, “The Character of a Good Parson; Imitated from Chaucer, and Inlarg’d”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To buy.
  3. (informal, intransitive) To talk much and idly; to chatter.
    • The Dartie within him made him chaffer for five minutes with young Padwick concerning the favourite for the Cambridgeshire.1922, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga

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Questions about chaffered

What is chaffered the simple past and past participle of?
Chaffered is the simple past and past participle of chaffer.

Words near chaffered in the dictionary

  1. chaffed
  2. Chaffee
  3. Chaffee County
  4. Chaffees
  5. chaffer
  6. chaffered
  7. chafferer
  8. chafferers
  9. chafferies
  10. chaffering
  11. chafferings

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