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v. - Talk socially without exchanging too much information; Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.).

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Usage examples (39)
  • Verb (used without object) : to chaffer over a price. ,to chaffer about nothing in particular
  • “Why chaffer over it? give me seventy-five kopeks.”
  • With chaffer that worse was that war-crash of slaughter,
  • ` ` Why chaffer over it? give me seventy-five kopeks. ''
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