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haggling, vbl. n.|ˈhæglɪŋ|
[f. haggle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb haggle. a. Wrangling about terms, bargaining with much discussion. b. Uneven or clumsy cutting.
a.1632Sherwood, A haggling, barguigne. 1765Cowper Wks. (1835–37) I. 197 Disagreeable haggling and higgling, and twisting and wriggling, to save my money. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 95 After some haggling he consented to sell..his pretensions..for a pension of five hundred pounds a year.
b.1846Ruskin Mod. Paint. (1851) I. ii. ii. iii. §13 Half the chiaroscuro is totally destroyed by the haggling, blackening, and ‘making out’ of the engravers. |