Chafer vs. Chaffer

Chafernoun

One who chafes.

Chafferverb

(intransitive) To haggle or barter.

Chafernoun

A vessel for heating water; hence, a dish or pan.

Chafferverb

(transitive) To buy.

Chafernoun

A vessel for holding burning coals or hot water used as a warmer.

Chafferverb

To talk much and idly; to chatter.

Chafernoun

Any of several scarab beetles, including the cockchafer, leaf chafer, and rose chafer.

Chaffernoun

bargaining; merchandise

Chafernoun

One who chafes.

Chaffernoun

(agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed

Chafernoun

A vessel for heating water; - hence, a dish or pan.

‘A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons.’;

Chaffernoun

One who chaffs.

Chafernoun

A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.

Chaffernoun

Bargaining; merchandise.

Chafferverb

To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.

‘To chaffer for preferments with his gold.’;

Chafferverb

To talk much and idly; to chatter.

Chafferverb

To buy or sell; to trade in.

‘He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set.’;

Chafferverb

To exchange; to bandy, as words.

Chafferverb

wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.);

‘Let's not haggle over a few dollars’;

Chafferverb

talk socially without exchanging too much information;

‘the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze’;

Chaffer

Chaffer is a surname.