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Meaning of HAGGLE

Pronunciation:  'hagul

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
  2. [v]  wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's not haggle over a few dollars"
 
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 Synonyms: chaffer, haggling, higgle, huckster, wrangle, wrangling
 
 See Also: bargain, bargain down, bargaining, beat down, dicker

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Hag"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haggled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Haggling}.] [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.
          Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes
          to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.  --Shak.
    
  2. \Hag"gle\, v. i.
    To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to
    chaffer; to higgle.
          Royalty and science never haggled about the value of
          blood.                                   --Walpole.
    
  3. \Hag"gle\, n.
    The act or process of haggling. --Carlyle.
    
 
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 Related Terms: 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
 

 

 

 

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