[syn: haggle, higgle, chaffer, huckster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Haggle \Hag"gle\ (h[a^]g"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled
(-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling (-gl[i^]ng).] [Freq. of
Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.]
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.
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Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er,
Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Haggle \Hag"gle\, v. i.
To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to
chaffer; to higgle.
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Royalty and science never haggled about the value of
blood. --Walpole.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Haggle \Hag"gle\, n.
The act or process of haggling. --Carlyle.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
haggle
n 1: an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn:
haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling]
v 1: wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's
not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: haggle, higgle,
chaffer, huckster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "haggle":
bargain, bargaining, barter, beat down, bicker, bid, bid for,
cavil, chaffer, chaffering, cheapen, collective bargaining,
coming to terms, deal, dicker, 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