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    CHAFFER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Talk socially without exchanging too much informationplay

    Example:

    the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

    Synonyms:

    chaffer; chat; chatter; chew the fat; chit-chat; chitchat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit

    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

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)play

    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

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