haggle

  • 21Haggle (game) — Haggle is a party game designed by Sid Sackson and intended for a large number of players. It is rather complex and involved compared to many party games and, as a result, is often played only at gatherings of people who are known to enjoy gaming …

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  • 22haggle — I. verb (haggled; haggling) Etymology: frequentative of hag to hew Date: 1599 transitive verb 1. to cut roughly or clumsily ; hack 2. archaic to annoy or exhaust with wrangling intransitive verb …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 23haggle — haggler, n. /hag euhl/, v., haggled, haggling, n. v.i. 1. to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner: They spent hours haggling over the price of fish. 2. to wrangle, dispute, or cavil: The senators haggled interminably over… …

    Universalium

  • 24haggle — verb /ˈhæɡəl/ a) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller. I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high. b) To hack (cut crudely) I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards… …

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  • 25haggle — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 26Haggle — try to talk the price down …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 27haggle — I Australian Slang try to talk the price down II Cleveland Dialect List to hail: it haggles sair …

    English dialects glossary

  • 28haggle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. cavil; bargain, chaffer, dicker. See barter. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To bargain] Syn. deal, wrangle, argue; see buy 1 , sell 1 . 2. [To mangle] Syn. whack, hack, chop; see cut 1 . III (Roget s 3… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 29haggle — hag·gle || hægl v. bargain, wrangle, negotiate, argue over a price or condition …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 30haggle — verb dispute or bargain persistently, especially over a price. noun a period of haggling. Derivatives haggler noun Origin C16 (in the sense hack, mangle ): from ON hỏggva hew …

    English new terms dictionary