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haggle
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)
- (intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
- (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.
- 1599: William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 4, Scene 6
- 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.
- June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway
Synonyms
- (to argue for a better deal): wrangle
Derived terms
- haggler
Translations
See also
- bargain
- negotiate
References
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paggle
English
Verb
paggle (third-person singular simple present paggles, present participle paggling, simple past and past participle paggled)
- (obsolete) To hang loosely.
- (obsolete) To bulge.
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