单词 | haggle |
释义 | hagglen. An instance or period of haggling or bargaining. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > bargaining > [noun] koffry1488 hucking1551 coping1595 haggling1632 hucksterage1641 huckstering1647 huckstery1662 bargaining1669 higgling1700 chaffering1794 badgering1800 dickering1802 tig-tagging1825 haggle1829 chaffer1851 bargain-driving1902 wheeling and dealing1969 the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > terms of agreement > negotiating or making terms bargain1330 treatyc1405 overture1427 chafferingc1449 treatingc1450 entreat1485 patising1530 practice1540 articulating1562 capitulation1569 entreatance1574 tractation1600 interdealing1611 negotiation1614 tractate1618 haggling1632 traffickinga1649 bargaining1669 conditioning1680 transacting1686 higgling1700 stipulation1792 treatment1828 haggle1829 coming to terms1843 1829 Lincoln, Rutland, & Stamford Mercury 5 June After a long ‘haggle,’ the Lighting and Paving Commissioners have come to an agreement for taking gas of the Lincoln Gas-light Company. 1900 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Apr. 616 I traded fifty good oxen..and sold them at three pounds and ten shillings a head..after no end of a haggle. 2008 Taranaki (N.Z.) Daily News (Nexis) 11 Dec. 31 That course of action came after a protracted haggle around the council table this week. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hagglev. 1. a. intransitive. To cut with rough or heavy blows; to cut clumsily leaving jagged edges; to hack. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (intransitive)] carve?c1225 rivec1275 shearc1275 cutc1400 racea1413 incise?1541 slash1548 slive1558 hackle1577 haggle1577 slice1606 snipa1680 chip1844 bite1849 1577 [implied in: R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 3/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I As neere the pricke as you are, & as very an hagler as I am, yet the scantling shall be myne. (at haggler n. 1)]. 1578 J. Polemon All Famous Battels 249 Light harquebusiers were sent before to haggle on the backes and tayle of the Frenchmen. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. 67 For fear any little motion..should bend our instrument and make us haggle or cut awry. 1804 Man in the Moon xvii. 131 She haggles at a wing, until it flies off into the plate of one of the astonished guests. 1976 Countryman Autumn 109 Another villager..was seen almost daily, loping along, shears or saw in hand... He would..move off along the hedgerow, hacking and haggling, laying all waste before him like a destructive gnome. b. transitive. To cut (a person or thing) with rough or heavy blows; to cut clumsily leaving jagged edges; to hack. Also figurative. Chiefly regional in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > cut roughly in order to damage hacka1200 mangle1528 hackle1564 behack1565 to rip up1567 to cut upa1592 hash1591 bemangle1601 hagglea1616 hacker1807 snag1811 butch1834 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. vi. 11 Suffolke first dyed, and Yorke all hagled ouer Comes to him, where in gore he lay..kisses the gashes That bloodily did yawne vpon his face. View more context for this quotation 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia (1629) iv. 145 They not only slew him and his family, but butcher-like hagled their bodies. 1760 R. Lloyd Actor in Wks. I. 14 Your fool..Who murders what the Poet finely writ, And like a bungler haggles all his wit. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. x. 247 Haggling the nails of your right hand with a pair of blunt scissors held in the left. 1885 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story xxii. 158 That was a good clean cut..I dislike to see a tree haggled down. 1950 R. Moore Candlemass Bay 271 Jen..sat at the kitchen table, haggling open the pea pods with her thumbnail. 2012 C. Nova Constant Heart 261 They ate from the cans, the tops of which had been haggled open and had lips as jagged as saw blades. 2. intransitive. To make progress with difficulty, to struggle. In later use Scottish and English regional. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > with persistence, effort, or urgency shovec888 thringc893 thresta1225 wina1300 thrustc1330 pressa1375 throngc1440 wrestc1450 thrimp1513 to put forward1529 intrude1562 breast1581 shoulder1581 haggle1582 strivea1586 wrestle1591 to push on (also along)1602 elabour1606 contend1609 to put on?1611 struggle1686 worry1702 crush1755 squeege1783 battle1797 scrouge1798 sweat1856 flounder1861 pull?1863 tank1939 bulldozer1952 terrier1959 the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > progress with difficulty hagglea1871 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 63 The giaunt, with his hole flock lowbylyke hagling. 1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 94 Wheare the great hulck floated, theare now thee cartwheele is hagling. 1756 Mrs. Calderwood's Journey in Coltness Coll. (1842) 149 Like a lady from the country,..holding the fan out likeways, as if she was to red her way by it, and hagheling, as if she thought all her pitecots were coming off. a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) II. 36 A Third Edition got done..Printing haggles forward till October. a1917 E. C. Smith Mang Howes & Knowes (1925) 19 A haiggle on alang streets chowky wui cluds o shairny stoor. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 66 Haggle, to struggle against odds. 3. a. intransitive. To argue or dispute about something, esp. persistently; to cavil, to quibble; spec. to argue over the terms of an agreement or transaction; to bargain, esp. over the price of something. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain [verb (intransitive)] bargain1525 hucka1529 hucker1548 dodge1568 blockc1570 pelt1579 hack1587 haggle1589 to beat the bargain1591 to beat the market1591 huckster1593 niffera1598 badger1600 scotch1601 palter1611 cheapen1620 higgle1633 tig-tag1643 huckle1644 chaffer1693 chaffer1725 dicker1797 niffer1815 Jew1825 hacker1833 banter1835 higgle-haggle1841 hondle1921 wheel and deal1961 society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain over [verb (transitive)] > drive down (prices or a person) by bargaining haggle1589 cheapen1655 screw1677 to beat down1793 to jew down1835 banter1839 Jew1851 ike1932 the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement [verb (intransitive)] > negotiate driveOE treat1297 chaffer1377 broke1496 hucka1529 capitulate1537 hack1587 haggle1589 huckster1593 negotiate1598 to stand out1606 palter1611 to drive a hard bargaina1628 priga1628 scotch1627 prig1632 higgle1633 to dodge it1652 to beat a (the) bargain1664 1589 J. Throckmorton M. Some laid Open in his Coulers 58 First though it be very cleare, that M. Penri doth not say so, altogether disclaiming the point, as an odious and fruitlesse controuersie, yet because M. Some wil stil be hagling at that biting consequent, as a man halfe starued and hungerbit for want of other sustenance. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Barguigner..to wrangle, dodge, haggle. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 26 To bid a Shilling more, and Haggle with them. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 105 There were two points on which he haggled. 1886 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. xii. 278 The king now haggled about the præmunire. 1953 R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together i. viii. 71 Haggling over vegetables she bought from the country people. 2014 Times (Nexis) 8 Nov. (Weekend section) 29 We braved the Grand Bazaar and haggled to get a few lira off a wooden travel chess set. b. transitive. With down. To drive down (the price of something) by haggling or bargaining; to drive down a price by haggling or bargaining with (the seller). ΚΠ 1865 P. Jacobi Het Gebruik der Engelsche Werkwoorden V. 382 To haggle down a price, one down in his price, een' prijs door afdingen verminderen, iemand op zijnen prijs afdingen. 1989 PC Mag. 27 June 116/2 Its mail-order price was quoted at $506, but since it is a discontinued model, you might be able to haggle it down. 2009 S. Khorsandi Beginner's Guide to acting Eng. i. 13 I felt sorry for all the salesmen who tried to sell something to Maman Shamsi. Either she refused to buy or she would mercilessly haggle them down to a fraction of what they had first asked for. 4. transitive. To harass or worry (a person); to bother, pester, hassle. In later use colloquial or English regional. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)] > in other ways ofliec1275 forseeka1400 overwatcha1529 haggle1648 wear1864 nag1870 fatigue1872 to run into the ground1955 1648 O. Cromwell Let. 20 Aug. in Writings & Speeches (1937) (modernized text) I. 637 We are so harassed and haggled out in this business. a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) II. xi. 359 Moore, and one or two others, were neither awed nor haggled with their inquisitors. 1825 R. P. Ward Tremaine II. xxiii. 218 Old Mr. Barnabus is quoit haggled with it. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 57 Haggle, to worry. ‘She do look like she's reg'lar haggled.’ 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 66 Haggle, to harass, worry. 2016 @kshatter 3 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 7 Jan. 2021) My office has been haggling me to bring in doughnuts for 3 months. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1829v.1577 |
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