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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : hag-uh l |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæg əl |
Definition of haggling
Origin :- 1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of haggen "to chop" (see hack (v.1)). Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away. Related: Haggled; haggling.
- verb bicker, quarrel
- You don't get it done any cheaper by haggling about the price beforehand—I've found that out.'
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- Mat Mogmore, after some haggling, consented to become one of the crew of the yacht.
- Extract from : « Freaks of Fortune » by Oliver Optic
- This after some haggling, he agreed to do, all for one peso (Mexican silver dollar).
- Extract from : « On the Mexican Highlands » by William Seymour Edwards
- There was always a great deal of haggling over the sale of furs.
- Extract from : « Historic Events of Colonial Days » by Rupert S. Holland
- Haggling is not graceful, but it need not imply avarice in either of the parties to it.
- Extract from : « Voltaire » by John Morley
- Consequently all this haggling about how much shall be paid this year or that year is avoided.
- Extract from : « Meccania » by Owen Gregory
- Schaunard is haggling with a tinsmith over the price of a horn.
- Extract from : « The Complete Opera Book » by Gustav Kobb
- But while king and Commons were haggling for terms, a new difficulty arose.
- Extract from : « A History of England » by Charles Oman
- I could tell you of haggling and bargaining that we have done!
- Extract from : « The Librarian at Play » by Edmund Lester Pearson
- There was no question of buyer or seller, no bargaining, no haggling.
- Extract from : « The Lonely Unicorn » by Alec Waugh
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