haggle
to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner: They spent hours haggling over the price of fish.
to wrangle, dispute, or cavil: The senators haggled interminably over the proposed bill.
to mangle in cutting; hack.
to settle on by haggling.
Archaic. to harass with wrangling or haggling.
the act of haggling; wrangle or dispute over terms.
Origin of haggle
1Other words from haggle
- haggler, noun
- un·hag·gled, adjective
- un·hag·gling, adjective
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How to use haggle in a sentence
I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)For two hours then, Hale haggled and bargained, and at ten o'clock he went to the telegraph office.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | John Fox, Jr.He haggled long about the price, for form's sake, to act up to his part as Nicholas Korpanoff, a plain merchant of Irkutsk.
Michael Strogoff | Jules VerneShann haggled off some ragged steaks while the wolverines feasted in earnest, carefully burying the head afterward.
Storm Over Warlock | Andre NortonIt was a state of things so entirely incomprehensible to Mr Darvell, that, as he expressed it, “it fairly haggled him.”
Our Frank | Amy Walton
British Dictionary definitions for haggle
/ (ˈhæɡəl) /
(intr often foll by over) to bargain or wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc); barter
(tr) rare to hack
Origin of haggle
1Derived forms of haggle
- haggler, noun
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