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English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Verb
haggle (third-person singular simple present haggles, present participle haggling, simple past and past participle haggled)
- (intransitive) 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.
2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 184:‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’
2025 June 20, Meaghan Tobin, “Chinese Companies Set Their Sights on Brazil”, in The New York Times:Last month, while officials from Washington and Beijing were haggling over whether to roll back tariffs that had brought their trade to a standstill, Chinese companies announced plans to invest about $4.7 billion in Brazil.
- (transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
- To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
- June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway
- Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
Synonyms
- (to argue for a better deal): wrangle
Derived terms
Translations
to argue for a better deal
- Arabic: سَاوَمَ (sāwama)
- Armenian: սակարկել (hy) (sakarkel)
- Belarusian: таргава́цца impf (tarhavácca)
- Bulgarian: пазаря́ се (bg) impf or pf (pazarjá se)
- Catalan: regatejar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 殺價 / 杀价 (saat3 gaa3)
- Mandarin: 討價還價 / 讨价还价 (zh) (tǎojià-huánjià), 計較 / 计较 (zh) (jìjiào)
- Czech: smlouvat impf, handrkovat se impf, dohadovat impf
- Danish: prutte (da), købslå
- Dutch: afdingen (nl)
- Esperanto: marĉandi (eo)
- Estonian: tingima
- Finnish: tinkiä (fi)
- French: marchander (fr)
- Galician: regatear (gl), relear (gl)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: feilschen (de), (dated) markten (de), schachern (de)
- Greek: διαπραγματεύομαι (el) (diapragmatévomai), (colloquial) παζαρεύω (el) (pazarévo)
- Hungarian: alkudozik (hu)
- Icelandic: prútta
- Indonesian: tawar (id)
- Ingrian: tinkiä, tiukata
- Italian: contrattare (it), tirare sul prezzo, mercanteggiare (it)
- Japanese: 値切る (ja) (ねぎる, negiru), 〔値段などで〕押し問答する (ja) (おしもんどうする, oshimondō suru)
- Khmer: ដេញថ្លៃ (dəñ thlay)
- Korean: 깎다 (ko) (kkakda)
- Lao: ຕໍ່ (tǭ)
- Macedonian: се ценка impf (se cenka)
- Malay: tawar-menawar
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: prute (no)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: چانِه زَدَن (fa) (čâne zadan)
- Polish: targować się (pl) impf
- Portuguese: pechinchar (pt), regatear (pt), barganhar (pt)
- Romanian: tocmi (ro), negocia (ro), târgui (ro), neguța (ro), țigăni (ro)
- Russian: торгова́ться (ru) impf (torgovátʹsja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ценкати се impf, цјенкати се impf
- Roman: cenkati se (sh) impf, cjenkati se (sh) impf
- Slovene: barantati impf
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wikowaś
- Upper Sorbian: wikować (hsb)
- Spanish: regatear (es), recatear (es)
- Swedish: pruta (sv), köpslå (sv)
- Tamil: பேரம் பேசு (pēram pēcu)
- Thai: ต่อรอง (th) (dtɔ̀ɔ-rɔɔng)
- Turkish: pazarlık etmek (tr), pazarlık yapmak
- Ukrainian: торгува́тися impf (torhuvátysja)
- Vietnamese: mặc cả (vi)
- Wolof: waxaale (wo)
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to stick at small matters
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