Chauffeur vs Chaffer - What's the difference?
chauffeur | chaffer |
A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=3 (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.
To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
To transport (someone) in a motor car.
To haggle or barter.
* Dryden
* 1985 , , Kingdom of the Wicked :
To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Bargaining; merchandise.
(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
, passage=A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.}}
As nouns the difference between chauffeur and chaffer
is that chauffeur is while chaffer is bargaining; merchandise or chaffer can be (agriculture) the upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.As a verb chaffer is
to haggle or barter.chauffeur
English
(wikipedia chauffeur)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur , since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.}}
Usage notes
As the French word has masculine gender, a female chauffeur is sometimes called a chauffeuse or, jocularly, a chauffeuress.Hypernyms
* (both senses) driverVerb
(en verb)chaffer
English
Etymology 1
From cheap fare .Verb
(en verb)- To chaffer for preferments with his gold.
- But the people looked much like Caleb’s own. They wore dirty robes, chaffered at fruit stalls, spat, scratched.
- (Trench)
Synonyms
* bargain * barter * haggle * negotiateNoun
- (Holished)
Etymology 2
FromNoun
(en noun)citation