haggle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
    wrangling; haggling; wrangle.
  2. verb wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
    chaffer; higgle; huckster.
    • Let's not haggle over a few dollars

WordNet

Hag"gle transitive verb
Etymology
Freq. of Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Haggled ; present participle & verbal noun Haggling
Definitions
  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.
    Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.
Hag"gle intransitive verb
Definitions
  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.
Hag"gle noun
Definitions
  1. The act or process of haggling. Carlyle.

Webster 1913