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chaffering

 
Verb chaffer has 2 senses
  1. haggle, higgle, chaffer, huckster - wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's not haggle over a few dollars"
    --1 is one way to dicker, bargain
    Sample sentences:
    The glass tubes chaffer
    Sam wants to chaffer with Sue
  2. chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit - talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
    --2 is one way to converse, discourse
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
chafe at the bit chafed chafes chafeweed chaff chaff for the wheat chaffed chaffer chaffering chaffeur chaffey chaffinch chaffing chafflike chaffweed chaffy chafing

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