haggle

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US /ˈhægəl/ UK /ˈhæɡəl/ See IPA manual

Freq #28475

Meanings

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

noun
A long or heated argument over a price or terms.

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

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Multiword verbs with haggle

haggle over Prepositional verb C1

to argue about a price or terms in an attempt to reach a better agreement

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Synonyms

1 verb · to argue with someone in... bargain chafferhiggle

2 noun · a long or heated argument... hagglingwrangle

Word family

Forms haggledhaggleshaggling

Derived forms hagglerhiggle-haggleunhagglingwraggle

Related forms bargain negotiate

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haggle over
To argue about a price or terms in an attempt to reach a better agreement.

Verb + preposition/particle

Simplified etymology

Haggle dates from the late Middle Ages and comes from an Old Norse word meaning “to hack” or “mangle.” Its history may also have contributed to hassle, originally a dialect verb meaning “hack or saw at.”

Etymology

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.

haggen Middle English

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# haggle

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C1
**Part of speech:** verb, noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈhægəl/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈhæɡəl/
**Frequency rank:** 28475

## Meanings
1. To argue with someone in order to reach a deal, especially over a price.
2. A long or heated argument over a price or terms.

## Examples
- I haggled with the vendor until he lowered the price.
- After a long haggle, they finally agreed on a fair amount.

## Derived Forms
- haggler
- higgle-haggle
- unhaggling
- wraggle

## Related Forms
- bargain
- negotiate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: haggen

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Haggle has the etymology 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. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern verbal form is built from the named base and affix. In present-day use, it can mean to argue with someone in order to reach a deal, especially over a price, or a long or heated argument over a price or terms. Related forms include bargain, negotiate. Derived formations include haggler, higgle-haggle, unhaggling, wraggle.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes

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