haggler

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈhæɡlɚ/ UK /ˈhaɡlə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a person who bargains persistently over price

A shrewd haggler, she paid half the asking price.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who bargains... bargainernegotiatorhigglerchafferer

Word family

Related forms haggle haggling

Etymology

From haggle ('to bargain, dispute over terms') + the agent suffix -er; haggle is a frequentative of the obsolete hag ('to chop, hack'), from Old Norse hǫggva ('to hew').

hǫggva Old Norse

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Topics

People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# haggler

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈhæɡlɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈhaɡlə/

## Meanings
1. a person who bargains persistently over price

## Examples
- A shrewd haggler, she paid half the asking price.

## Synonyms
- bargainer
- negotiator
- higgler
- chafferer

## Related Forms
- haggle
- haggling

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: hǫggva

## Etymology
From haggle ('to bargain, dispute over terms') + the agent suffix -er; haggle is a frequentative of the obsolete hag ('to chop, hack'), from Old Norse hǫggva ('to hew').

## AI Etymology
haggler comes from haggle ('to bargain, dispute over terms') + the agent suffix -er; haggle is a frequentative of the obsolete hag ('to chop, hack'), from Old Norse hǫggva ('to hew'). Morphologically, the ending is part of the etymology: the suffix is attached to the older base named in the history, producing a later English derivative. In present English, the noun sense is "a person who bargains persistently over price", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. The same base also appears in related forms such as haggle and haggling. Its semantic neighborhood includes bargainer, negotiator, higgler, and chafferer, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include Old Norse hǫggva.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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