haggle
verb/ˈhæɡəl/UK
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.
- derived from haggen
Definitions
To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
- I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
- ‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’
- Last month, while officials from Washington and Beijing were haggling over whether to roll back tariffs that had brought their trade to a standstill, Chinese companies announced plans to invest about $4.7 billion in Brazil.
To hack (cut crudely)
- Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
- 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.
To stick at small matters
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.
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Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA