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chaffer
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synonyms: higgle ???
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Definition:to haggle
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I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at £1000 apiece.
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does not present the opportunity to chaffer even for a stick of candy,
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Magnolia
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Buck heard the chaffering, saw the money pass between the man and the Government agent,
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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