Haggling

[hag-uhl]

hag·gle

[hag-uhl] verb, hag·gled, hag·gling, noun
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.

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

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English haggen to cut, chop (< Old Norse hǫggva to hew) + -le

hag·gler, noun
un·hag·gled, adjective
un·hag·gling, adjective
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haggling

noun
an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: haggle
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