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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--chaffer This week's theme: verbs. chaffer (CHAF-uhr) verb tr., intr. 1. To haggle; to bargain. 2. To bandy words; to chatter. noun Bargaining or haggling. [From Middle English chaffare, eventually from Old English ceap (trade, purchase), precursor of English cheap + faru (journey).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "I chaffered with the king of those people, who was a wise and far-sighted woman, and brought her to understand that it would be much to her advantage to accept from me half the arms and ammunition I had brought with me." Delia Sherman; The Parwat Ruby; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Cornwall, Connecticut); Jun 1999. X-Bonus What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. -Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939)

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