Haggle
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Haggle![]() ![]() Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Haggle \Hag"gle\ (h[a^]g"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling (-gl[i^]ng).] [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. [1913 Webster] Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Haggle \Hag"gle\, v. i.
To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to
chaffer; to higgle.
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Royalty and science never haggled about the value of
blood. --Walpole.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Haggle \Hag"gle\, n. The act or process of haggling. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster] Source: WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
haggle
n 1: an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn:
haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling]
v 1: wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's
not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: haggle, higgle,
chaffer, huckster]
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 39 Moby Thesaurus words for "haggle": bargain, bargaining, barter, beat down, bicker, bid, bid for, cavil, chaffer, chaffering, cheapen, collective bargaining, coming to terms, deal, dicker, dickering, dispute, drive a bargain, hack, hackle, haggling, higgle, higgling, horse-trade, huckster, jew down, negotiate, negotiation, outbid, package bargaining, palter, pattern bargaining, quibble, slash, squabble, stickle, trade, underbid, wrangle Matching Word(s) Haggled Haggler Daggle Gaggle Waggle Higgle Huggle haggler gaggle waggle higgle
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