Haggle Definition
hăgəl
haggled, haggles, haggling
verb
haggled, haggles, haggling
To argue about terms, price, etc.; bargain; wrangle.
Webster's New World
To argue in an attempt to come to terms.
American Heritage
To cut (something) in a crude, unskillful manner; hack.
American Heritage
To harass or worry by wrangling.
American Heritage
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Wiktionary
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noun
The act of haggling.
Webster's New World
An instance of bargaining or arguing.
American Heritage
Origin of Haggle
haggle (v.) 1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of haggen "to chop" (see hack (v.1)). Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away. Related: Haggled; haggling. Source:
From Wiktionary
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Frequentative of dialectal hag to chop, hack from Middle English haggen from Old Norse höggva kau- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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