Plural of chafferer; multiple people who engage in haggling, bargaining, or petty trading.
From chafferer plus the plural -s ending. Describes groups of merchants or negotiators.
Medieval town records describe the noise and chaos of market streets filled with chafferers—groups of haggling merchants were considered such a distinctive social phenomenon they got their own plural!
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