different between haggle vs waggle

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

wag +? -le (“(frequentative)”). Compare continental equivalents Middle High German wacken ( > Danish vakle, German wackeln), Swedish vagla, West Frisian waggelje, Low German wackeln, Dutch waggelen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?wa??l/

  Rhymes: -æ??l

Verb

waggle (third-person singular simple present waggles, present participle waggling, simple past and past participle waggled)

1. (transitive) To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.
   • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     The Mole waggled his toes from sheer happiness, spread his chest with a sigh of full contentment, and leaned back blissfully into the soft cushions.

2. (intransitive) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act II, Scene 1,^[1]

     I know you by the waggling of your head.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, Fables of Æsop and other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflections, 8th edition, London: A. Bettesworth et. al., 1738, Anianus’s Fables, Fab. 222, p. 239,^[2]

     Why do you go Nodding and Waggling so like a Fool, as if you were Hipshot? says the Goose to her Gosselin.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “British Columbia Nightingale,”^[3]

     The tassel on the end of his pigtail waggled all down the path and, as he turned out of the gate, it gave a special little flip.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

waggle (plural waggles)

1. A wobbling motion.
2. (golf) The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke.

Anagrams

• waggel