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1. Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
   "Let's not chaffer over a few dollars"
   - haggle, higgle [archaic], huckster [N. Amer]
    
2. Talk socially without exchanging too much information
   "the men were sitting in the cafe and chaffering"
   - chew the fat, shoot the breeze [N. Amer], chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, natter, gossip, jaw, claver [UK, dialect], visit, gas, gab

Derived forms: chaffered, chaffering, chaffers

Type of: bargain, converse, dicker [N. Amer], discourse