chaffer

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈtʃæfə/    美 /ˈt͡ʃæfɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Bargaining; merchandise. uncountable
    — vittels, and other chaffer and merchandize were excéeding cheape: for at London a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings
  2. The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.
    — A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.
  3. A person's mouth. countable,obsolete,slang
    — Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.
  4. A person who or thing that chaffs.
动词 v.
  1. To haggle or barter. intransitive
    — To chaffer for preferment with his gold.
  2. To buy. transitive
  3. To talk much and idly; to chatter. informal,intransitive
    — The Dartie within him made him chaffer for five minutes with young Padwick concerning the favourite for the Cambridgeshire.

词形变化

chaffers present,singular,third-person chaffering participle,present chaffered participle,past chaffered past chaffers plural chaffers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
chafferer

词源

词源 1
From Middle English chaffare (“a bargain, a trade”, noun), equivalent to cheap + fare.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English chaff
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English chaffer
From chaff + -er.
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