different between haggle vs huggle

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

Etymology

Frequentative of hug: hug +? -le.

Verb

huggle (third-person singular simple present huggles, present participle huggling, simple past and past participle huggled)

1. (Internet, childish) To hug and snuggle simultaneously: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.
2. (Internet) To hug and cuddle.
3. (archaic) To huddle.
   • Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, e.g. in William Allingham, The ballad book: a selection of the choicest British ballads, Sever and Francis, 1865, p. 269.

     Lie still, lie still, thou little Musgrave, | And huggle me from the cold; | 'tis nothing but a shepherds boy, | A-driving his sheep to fold.

Noun

huggle (plural huggles)

1. (Internet, childish) A hug while snuggling: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.

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