Past tense of chaffer; bargained, haggled, or engaged in petty trading or negotiation.
From chaffer, related to Middle Low German kafferen. The -ed suffix marks past tense or past participle.
In Shakespeare's time, 'chaffering' described the noisy, friction-filled markets where people haggled—the word captures the back-and-forth energy of a bazaar perfectly.
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