Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To bargain, as over the price of something; dicker.
  • intransitive verb To argue in an attempt to come to terms.
  • intransitive verb To cut (something) in a crude, unskillful manner; hack.
  • intransitive verb Archaic To harass or worry by wrangling.
  • noun An instance of bargaining or arguing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To hail.
  • To hack roughly; cut or chop in an unskilful manner; mangle in cutting.
  • To tease; worry.
  • To bargain in a petty and tedious manner; higgle; stick at small matters; cavil.
  • noun A haggling or chaffering.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of haggling.
  • transitive verb 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.
  • intransitive verb To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
  • verb transitive To hack (cut crudely)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
  • verb wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Frequentative of dialectal hag, to chop, hack, from Middle English haggen, from Old Norse höggva; see kau- in Indo-European roots.]

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word haggle.

Examples

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.