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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of chaffer.

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Examples

  • And while Levy and Toriki drank absinthe and chaffered over the pearl,

    THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI 2010

  • Ah Moy had bought him in Sydney from a sailor for eighteen shillings and chaffered an hour over the bargain.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • They chaffered with their vendors and customers, who themselves were big enough to throw their weight around in the market.

    The Non-Economist's Economist James Grant 2010

  • With that she alighted into her $75,000 World Food Organization range rover, slipped on her designer sun glasses and look straight ahead as her driver chaffered her past the driveway and out the gates without speaking to a single child.

    Matthew Bergman: An Afternoon on the Mara 2008

  • In the squares the black folk chaffered and bargained over plantains, beer, and hammered brass ornaments.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • In the squares the black folk chaffered and bargained over plantains, beer, and hammered brass ornaments.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • In the squares the black folk chaffered and bargained over plantains, beer and hammered brass ornaments.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • Black folks chaffered and bargained with endless talk over plaintains, banana beer, and hammered brass ornaments.

    Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969

  • Some of the passengers chaffered with a fishing boat to take them off, and we saw them on the waterfront, asking for news.

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • For the eleven-shilling oilskins I was referred to a villainous den in a back street, which the shopman said they always recommended, and where a dirty and bejewelled Hebrew chaffered with me (beginning at 18s.) over two reeking orange slabs distantly resembling moieties of the human figure.

    The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

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