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: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=chaffer -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. This newsletter is made possible in part by these sponsors: A cure for brain flab! One brain-building, at-a-glance email a day helps keep unsightly ignorance away. http://knowledgenews.net/s?s=aw080206 Ever wonder why we aren't just euphoric, we are on cloud nine? Derivation, a fun game about word and phrase origins. A great gift! http://entspire.com ............................................................................ 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) Send your comments to (words AT wordsmith.org). To unsubscribe, update address send gift subscription, etc., visit http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/chaffer.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/chaffer.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/chaffer.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
