haggle

CEFRC1

/ˈhæɡəl/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To argue about a price before agreeing to buy something.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To hack (cut crudely)

Examples

  • Don't haggle over a small sum of money.

  • We can haggle over price later.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

  2. To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.

More examples

In context

  • I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.

  • June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.

  • ‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.