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–verb (used without object)

1.	to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner: They spent hours haggling over the price of fish.

2.	to wrangle, dispute, or cavil: The senators haggled interminably over the proposed bill.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to mangle in cutting; hack.

4.	to settle on by haggling.

5.	Archaic. to harass with wrangling or haggling.

–noun

6.	the act of haggling; wrangle or dispute over terms.

[Origin: 1275–1325; ME haggen to cut, chop (< ON hǫggva to hew) + -le

]

—Related forms

haggler, noun

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hag·gle Audio Help   (hāg'əl) Pronunciation Key
v.   hag·gled, hag·gling, hag·gles

v.   intr.

To bargain, as over the price of something; dicker: "He preferred to be overcharged than to haggle" (W. Somerset Maugham).
To argue in an attempt to come to terms.

v. tr.

To cut (something) in a crude, unskillful manner; hack.
Archaic To harass or worry by wrangling.

n. An instance of bargaining or arguing.

[Frequentative of dialectal hag, to chop, hack, from Middle English haggen, from Old Norse höggva; see kau- in Indo-European roots.]

hag'gler n.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
haggle

1577, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), freq. of haggen "to chop" (see hack (1)). Sense of "argue about price" first recorded 1602, probably from notion of chopping away.

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haggle
noun
1.	an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
verb
1.	wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's not haggle over a few dollars"

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haggle [ˈhӕgl] verb

to argue about the price of something, or about the terms of an agreement

Arabic:	يُماحِك، يُساوِم
Chinese (Simplified):	（在价格、条件等方面）讨价还价
Chinese (Traditional):	討價還價
Czech:	smlouvat
Danish:	prutte; parlamentere
Dutch:	steggelen
Estonian:	tingima
Finnish:	tinkiä
French:	marchander
German:	feilschen
Greek:	παζαρεύω
Hungarian:	alkudozik
Icelandic:	prútta, þrátta
Indonesian:	tawar-menawar
Italian:	contrattare

Japanese:	値切る
Korean:	승강이하다
Latvian:	kaulēties
Lithuanian:	derėtis
Norwegian:	prute, krangle
Polish:	targować się
Portuguese (Brazil):	regatear
Portuguese (Portugal):	regatear
Romanian:	a se tocmi
Russian:	торговаться
Slovak:	dojednávať
Slovenian:	barantati
Spanish:	regatear; discutir
Swedish:	pruta, köpslå
Turkish:	sıkı pazarlık etmek

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Haggle

Hack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Hacking.] [OE. hakken; akin to D. hakken, G. hacken, Dan. hakke, Sw. hacka, and perh. to E. hew. Cf. Hew to cut, Haggle.]

1. To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.

My sword hacked like a handsaw. --Shak.

2. Fig.: To mangle in speaking. --Shak.

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Haggle

Hag"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling.] [Freq. of Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.] To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.

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

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Haggle

Hag"gle\, v. i. To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood. --Walpole.

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