Haggle

Quick meaning: Haggle is a verb meaning (intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.

Meaning

(intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
2. To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

Example Sentences

I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.

Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.

‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’

June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.

Word Forms

• haggles
• haggling
• haggled

Synonyms for haggle

Depending on context, synonyms include bargain, chaffer, wrangle, huckster, higgle, dicker.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chaffer, dicker, higgle, huckster, wrangling, wrangle.

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