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Haggle is defined as to bargain on a price, or to hack at something.

(verb)

An example of haggle is to get the sales price reduced on a house.
An example of haggle is to chop down a bush by chopping at its base with a shovel.

The definition of a haggle is an act of bargaining, or arguing about price.

(noun)

An example of haggle is a situation where the cost of a pair of shoes were bargained down from $100 to $50.

See haggle in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb haggled, haggling

to chop or cut crudely; hack; mangle

Origin: freq. of hag

intransitive verb

to argue about terms, price, etc.; bargain; wrangle

noun

the act of haggling

Related Forms:

haggler noun

See haggle in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb hag·gled, hag·gling, hag·gles

verb, intransitive

To bargain, as over the price of something; dicker: “He preferred to be overcharged than to haggle” (W. Somerset Maugham).
To argue in an attempt to come to terms.

verb, transitive

To cut (something) in a crude, unskillful manner; hack.
Archaic To harass or worry by wrangling.

noun

An instance of bargaining or arguing.

Origin:

Origin: Frequentative of dialectal hag, to chop, hack

Origin: , from Middle English haggen

Origin: , from Old Norse höggva; see kau- in Indo-European roots

Related Forms:

hagˈgler noun

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