haggle

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
  2. verb wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

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.

In classic literature

Synonyms

haggling, wrangle, wrangling

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