different between haggle vs deal

English

Etymology

1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack +? -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?hæ??l/
• Rhymes: -æ??l

Verb

haggle (third-person singular simple present haggles, present participle haggling, simple past and past participle haggled)

1. (intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.

2. (transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
   • 1599: William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 4, Scene 6

     Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.

   • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII

     I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper. Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.

3. To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
   • June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway

     Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.

Synonyms

• (to argue for a better deal): wrangle

Derived terms

• haggler

Translations

See also

• bargain
• negotiate

References

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?l, IPA^(key): /di?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English del, dele, from Old English d?l (“part, share, portion”), from Proto-Germanic *dailiz (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ail- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Scots dele (“part, portion”), West Frisian diel (“part, share”), Dutch deel (“part, share, portion”), German Teil (“part, portion, section”), Danish del (“part”), Swedish del ("part, portion, piece") Icelandic deila (“division, contention”), Gothic ???????????????????? (dails, “portion”), Slovene del (“part”). Related to Old English d?l (“portion”). More at dole.

Noun

deal (plural deals)

1. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.

2. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Ch.32:

     There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptized.

   Synonyms: batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, load, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew

Synonyms

• (act of apportioning or distributing): allotment, apportionment, distribution, doling out, sharing, sharing out

Derived terms

• (indefinite quantity): a great deal, a good deal, big deal, real deal
• afterdeal
• foredeal
• half-deal
• ordeal

Related terms

• a deal is a deal

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English delen, from Old English d?lan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-Germanic *dailijan? (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ail- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian ??????? (delít?).

Verb

deal (third-person singular simple present deals, present participle dealing, simple past and past participle dealt)

1. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.

   The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
2. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
   • 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot, ch. 30:

     "Away, proud woman!" said the Lady; "who ever knew so well as thou to deal the deepest wounds under the pretence of kindness and courtesy?"
3. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.

   I was dealt four aces.

   The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt.

4. (baseball) To pitch.

   The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger.

5. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, ch. 11:

     Mr. Brownlow contrived to state his case; observing that, in the surprise of the moment, he had run after the boy because he saw him running away; and expressing his hope that, if the magistrate should believe him, although not actually the thief, to be connected with thieves; he would deal as leniently with him as justice would allow.

6. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:

     In Deheubarth that now South-wales is hight, / What time king Ryence raign'd, and dealed right [...].

7. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV:

     Wel said syr Uwayne go on your waye, and lete me dele.

8. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).

   She deals in gold.

9. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.

   This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.

10. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 14:

      Science, it cannot be too often repeated, deals with tangible phenomena.

11. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 19:

      Then there was the sound of a struggle, and I knew that the attendants were dealing with him.

    I can't deal with this.

    I don't think he wants to go. — Yeah, well, we're going anyway, and he can deal.

Synonyms

• (distribute among a number of recipients): apportion, divvy up, share, share out, portion out
• (administer in portions): administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, hand out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out
• (distribute (cards)):
• (baseball slang: to pitch): pitch, throw
• (have dealings with):
• (trade): sell, trade, bargain
• (sell (illicit drugs)): sell
• (be handled):
• (handle, cope):

Derived terms

• deal with
• dealer
• dealth
• dealy

Translations

Noun

deal (plural deals)

1. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out.
2. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.

   I didn’t have a good deal all evening.

   I believe it's your deal.

3. A particular instance of buying or selling; a transaction

   We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.

   • 2014, Jamie Jackson, "Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian, 26 August 2014:

     The deal, which overtakes the £50m paid to Liverpool by Chelsea for Fernando Torres in January 2011 as the highest paid by a British club, takes United’s summer spend to £130.7m, following the £27m spent on Luke Shaw, the £28m for Ander Herrera and £16m for Marcos Rojo.

4. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
   • 2009, The Guardian, Virginia Wallis, 22 Jul 2009:

     You also have to look at the kind of mortgage deals available to you and whether you will be able to trade up to the kind of property you are looking for.

5. An agreement between parties; an arrangement
   • 2009, Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 20 Jul 2009:

     California lawmakers, their state broke and its credit rating shot, finally sealed the deal with the governor Monday night on a plan to close a $26 billion budget gap.

   He made a deal with the devil.

6. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.

   What's the deal?

7. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.

   The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.

Synonyms

• (cards held in a card game by a player at any given time): hand
• (instance of buying or selling): business deal, sale, trade, transaction
• (a beneficial transaction): steal, bargain
• (agreement between parties fixing obligations of each): contract, pact

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English dele (“plank”), from Middle Low German dele, from Old Saxon thili, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þilj? (“plank, board”); cognate with Old English þille. Doublet of thill.

Noun

deal (countable and uncountable, plural deals)

1. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 86,^[2]

     Some Houses were […] entirely lock’d up, the Doors padlockt, the Windows and Doors having Deal Boards nail’d over them,
2. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
3. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.

Synonyms

• (wood that is easy to saw, from conifers such as pine or fir):
• (plank of softwood):

Translations

Adjective

deal (not comparable)

1. Made of deal.

   A plain deal table

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 6

     She glanced round the kitchen. It was small and curious to her, with its glittering kissing-bunch, its evergreens behind the pictures, its wooden chairs and little deal table.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 47

     Through the open door you see a red-tiled floor, a large wooden bed, and on a deal table a ewer and a basin.

Translations

Anagrams

• ALDE, Adel, Dale, Dela, E.D. La., Leda, adle, dale, lade, lead

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English deal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?l/
• Hyphenation: deal

Noun

deal m (plural deals, diminutive dealtje n)

1. (informal) deal, a transaction or arrangement
2. (informal) a deal, a bargain (a favourable transaction)

Derived terms

• drugsdeal

Related terms

• deel
• delen

Middle English

Noun

deal

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of del

Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *dol?. Compare Serbo-Croatian dol.

Noun

deal n (plural dealuri)

1. hill

Derived terms

• deluros
• delu?or

Spanish

Etymology

From English deal.

Noun

deal m (plural deales)

1. (business) deal