different between haggled vs haggle

English

Verb

haggled

1. simple past tense and past participle of 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)

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