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dicker vs chaffer

chaffer vs dicker

dicker and chaffer both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
dicker No No Yes No
chaffer No No Yes No
As verbs, chaffer is a hyponym of dicker; that is, chaffer is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dicker:
  • dicker: negotiate the terms of an exchange
  • chaffer: wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
Other hyponyms of dicker include haggle, higgle, huckster.
dicker (verb) chaffer (verb)
negotiate the terms of an exchange talk socially without exchanging too much information
wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
Difference between dicker and chaffer

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