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Chaffed vs Chaffer - What's the difference?

chaffed | chaffer |

As verbs the difference between chaffed and chaffer

is that chaffed is (chaff) while chaffer is to haggle or barter.

As a noun chaffer is

bargaining; merchandise or chaffer can be (agriculture) the upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.

chaffed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (chaff)
    • ----

    chaff

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
    • To separate out the chaff , early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.
  • * Dryden
    • So take the corn and leave the chaff behind.
  • By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
    • There are plenty of good books on the subject, but take care to separate the wheat from the chaff .
  • * Shakespeare
    • the chaff and ruin of the times
  • Loose material dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with radar detection.
  • Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
  • * Wyatt
    • By adding chaff' to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way ' chaff is very useful.
  • Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

    • Derived terms

    * separate the wheat from the chaff

    See also

    * bran

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
  • To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

    • chaffer

    English

    Etymology 1

    From cheap fare .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To haggle or barter.
  • * Dryden
    • To chaffer for preferments with his gold.
  • * 1985 , , Kingdom of the Wicked :
    • But the people looked much like Caleb’s own. They wore dirty robes, chaffered at fruit stalls, spat, scratched.
  • To talk much and idly; to chatter.
    • (Trench)
    Synonyms
    * bargain * barter * haggle * negotiate

    Noun

  • Bargaining; merchandise.
    • (Holished)

    Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, William W. Casady, chapter=Grain Harvesting Systems, editor=Dennis R. Heldman, Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering citation
    • , passage=A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.}}
    Coordinate terms
    * blower * cleaning sieve