Talk socially without exchanging too much information.
Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
1 The hubbub and chaffer of it all went on the day long.
2 Some of the rabble began to chaffer with this ancient hucksteress.
3 There was a business chaffer , and the affair was virtually settled.
4 Let us hear them threaten, and whimper, and chaffer among themselves.
5 You make him go out into the market and chaffer for his bread!
6 And you reckon to chaffer that blood for a price.
7 I scattered my gold lavishly, nor did I chaffer over prices in mart or exchange.
8 There was, for instance, the poet who went round among the workmen to chaffer verses.
9 One by one the others come to join in the conversation, to chaffer and cadge.
10 What do I care for the Doctor Seraphic, With all his wordy chaffer and traffic?
11 There's no time to chaffer over the situation.
12 I haven't moist'ned my chaffer this blessed day.
13 Though he would not have admitted it he was tired, weary of the chaffer of it all.
14 On the plain-stones there are a number of benches on which men sit down to gossip and chaffer .
15 Quoth the master: Since thou dealest with these wild men, will ye not deal with us in chaffer ?
16 It is not for me, nor for any man who bears my name, to chaffer and to haggle.
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