haggle

UK /ˈhæɡəl/ US /ˈhæɡəl/
verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

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.’

2

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.

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.

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