haggle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To argue with someone in order to reach a deal, especially over a price.

   I haggled with the vendor until he lowered the price.

2. 2
   noun

   A long or heated argument over a price or terms.

   After a long haggle, they finally agreed on a fair amount.

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.

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