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haggle

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WOTD – 25 September 2010

Etymology

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1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied inhaggler), frequentative ofMiddle Englishhaggen(“to chop”), variant ofhacken(“to hack”), equivalent tohack +‎-le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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haggle (third-person singular simple presenthaggles,present participlehaggling,simple past and past participlehaggled)

  1. (intransitive) Toargue for a better deal, especially overprices with aseller.
    Ihaggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
    • 2020,Abi Daré,The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page184:
      ‘I am pretty useless athaggling.Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’
    • 2025 June 20, Meaghan Tobin, “Chinese Companies Set Their Sights on Brazil”, inThe New York Times‎[1]:
      Last month, while officials from Washington and Beijing werehaggling 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.
  2. (transitive) Tohack (cut crudely)
  3. To stick at small matters; tochaffer; tohiggle.
    • June 30, 1784,Horace Walpole,letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway
      Royalty and science neverhaggled about the value of blood.

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Translations

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to argue for a better deal—see alsobargain
to stick at small matters

See also

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References

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  1. ^Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “haggle”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary.
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