haggle

[ hag-uhl ]

/ ˈhæg əl /

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verb (used without object), hag·gled, hag·gling.

to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner: They spent hours haggling over the price of fish.

to wrangle, dispute, or cavil: The senators haggled interminably over the proposed bill.

verb (used with object), hag·gled, hag·gling.

to mangle in cutting; hack.

to settle on by haggling.

Archaic. to harass with wrangling or haggling.

noun

the act of haggling; wrangle or dispute over terms.

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Origin of haggle

1275–1325; Middle English haggen to cut, chop (<Old Norse hǫggva to hew) + -le

OTHER WORDS FROM haggle

haggler, nounun·hag·gled, adjectiveun·hag·gling, adjective

Words nearby haggle

haggadist, Haggai, haggard, hagged, haggis, haggle, hagia, hagiarchy, Hagia Sophia, Cathedral of, hagio-, hagiocracy

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How to use haggle in a sentence

Haggle over the numbers and details, attack the Senate for their failure to pass a budget, and then cut the best deal possible.
What Can the GOP Accomplish During Obama's 2nd Term?|David Frum|January 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Finally, the Hagel haggle highlighted a critical lesson for the pro-Israel community.
Why The Hagel Trial Balloon Popped|Gil Troy|December 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Republican rep wants lawmakers to extend the Bush tax cuts, and haggle over the rest later.
The Independent Rundown, November 28|Matthew DeLuca|November 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
We're just left to haggle over price: Should the successful pay forward 36% of their success or 39% or 28% or what.
Why "You Didn't Build That" Stings the Successful|David Frum|July 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST

He would haggle in a bargain for a shilling, and economize in things beneath a wise man's notice or consideration.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
After he had married her, he'd sell out this pile of junk and let somebody else haggle with the Injuns and cowpunchers.
Mystery Ranch|Arthur Chapman
To have to refuse one who has made you a gift of her beauty a trifling article; to haggle over such matters, like a miser!
Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo
Hence there was time for the United States to consider the question of a purchase and to haggle a little over the price.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska|Charles Warren Stoddard
Otherwise people would get silly ideas and begin to haggle over the price.
Bunker Bean|Harry Leon Wilson

British Dictionary definitions for haggle

haggle

/ (ˈhæɡəl) /

verb

(intr often foll by over) to bargain or wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc); barter

(tr) rare to hack

Derived forms of haggle

haggler, noun

Word Origin for haggle

C16: of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse haggva to hew

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