Haggle

Definition of Haggle

Hag´gle Pronunciation: hăg´g'l

v. t.	1.	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; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. [imp. & p. p. Haggled (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling (-glĭng).] Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. - Shak.
v. i.	1.	To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood. - Walpole.
n.	1.	The act or process of haggling.

Related Words

bargain, bargaining, barter, beat down, bicker, bid, bid for, cavil, chaffer, chaffering, cheapen, collective bargaining, coming to terms, deal, dickering, dispute, drive a bargain, hack, hackle, haggling, higgle, higgling, horse-trade, huckster, jew down, negotiate, negotiation, outbid, package bargaining, palter, pattern bargaining, quibble, slash, squabble, stickle, trade, underbid, wrangle

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