Chafer vs. Chaffer — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chafer and Chaffer
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Definitions
Chafer
Any of various plant-eating scarab beetles, such as the rose chafer.
Chaffer
Chaffer is a surname.
Chafer
One who chafes.
Chaffer
One who engages in banter or good-natured teasing.
Chafer
A vessel for heating water; hence, a dish or pan.
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Chaffer
(Archaic) A bargaining or haggling.
Chafer
A vessel for holding burning coals or hot water used as a warmer.
Chaffer
To bargain or haggle.
Chafer
Any of several scarab beetles, including the cockchafer, leaf chafer, and rose chafer.
Chaffer
(intransitive) To haggle or barter.
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Chafer
One who chafes.
Chaffer
(transitive) To buy.
Chafer
A vessel for heating water; - hence, a dish or pan.
A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons.
Chaffer
To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Chafer
A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.
Chaffer
Bargaining; merchandise
Chaffer
(agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed
Chaffer
One who chaffs.
Chaffer
Bargaining; merchandise.
Chaffer
To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.
To chaffer for preferments with his gold.
Chaffer
To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Chaffer
To buy or sell; to trade in.
He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set.
Chaffer
To exchange; to bandy, as words.
Chaffer
Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.);
Let's not haggle over a few dollars
Chaffer
Talk socially without exchanging too much information;
The men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze