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haggle

UK/ˈhæɡəl/ US/ˈhæɡʌl/ uncommon
verb (1) noun (1)

verb

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wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

  • “Let”
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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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