Definitions for haggleˈhæg əl

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

hag•gleˈhæg əl(v.; n.)-gled, -gling

  1. (v.i.)to bargain in a petty, quibbling, often contentious manner:

    to haggle for a better price.

  2. to dispute or cavil; wrangle:

    to haggle over the use of a word.

  3. (v.t.)to mangle in cutting; hack.

  4. Archaic. to harass with wrangling or haggling.

  5. (n.)the act of haggling; a wrangle or dispute.

Origin of haggle:

1575–85; appar. freq. of ME haggen to cut, chop (< ON hǫggva to hew ); see -le

Princeton's WordNet

  1. haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling(verb)

    an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)

  2. haggle, higgle, chaffer, huckster(verb)

    wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

    "Let's not haggle over a few dollars"

Wiktionary

  1. haggle(Verb)

    To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.

    I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.

  2. haggle(Verb)

    To hack (cut crudely)

Webster Dictionary

  1. Haggle(verb)

    to cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood

  2. Haggle(verb)

    to be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle

  3. Haggle(noun)

    the act or process of haggling


Translations for haggle

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

haggle(verb)

to argue about the price of something, or about the terms of an agreement.

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