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Added 8 October 2026

haggle

/ˈhæɡəl/ noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about haggle at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining).

verb

Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.).
Let's not haggle over a few dollars

Origin

1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.

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