chaffering

== English == === Noun === chaffering (countable and uncountable, plural chafferings) The act of bargaining or haggling over a price. September 9, 1819, Washington Irving, letter to Henry Breevort You have put my writings into circulation, and arranged the pecuniary concerns in such a way as to save future trouble and petty chafferings about accounts, and to give the whole an independent and gentlemanlike air. === Verb === chaffering present participle and gerund of chaffer