单词 | haggled |
释义 | haggledadj. 1. Cut with rough or heavy blows; cut clumsily, leaving jagged edges; hacked. Now regional. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [adjective] > cut hacked?1440 ripped1552 bemangled1570 cut1594 woundedc1595 haggled1598 incised1598 gashed1602 hackled1611 carbonadoeda1616 gashya1625 sleft1627 mangled1779 haggly1825 1598 J. Bishop Courteous Conference with Eng. Catholickes Romane 34 There continuall abusing and drawing at euery light priuate braule, became so hagled, blunt and contemptible, that euery boy laught at it. 1834 M. Scott Cruise of Midge i, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 328/1 The stumps of the haggled [1836 hagged] brushwood, where it had been cleared by the hatchet. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xiv. 133 There is a pile of haggled heads by thee. 1960 R. Moore Walk down Main St. x. 294 There was the haggled half of an apple pie on the cloth. 2. Obtained or arrived at by haggling or bargaining. Also with modifying adverb (see e.g. quot. 1906). ΚΠ 1906 N. S. Shaler From Old Fields 40 Guns..are..Not to be rendered to the foe for naught, But at hard-haggled price. 1921 Electr. World 14 May 1114/2 On a haggled price there is always a doubt as to whether the quality has not been skimped. 2013 @ezzielu 26 July in twitter.com (accessed 11 Jan. 2021) That was the haggled rate. Originally asked for $4,000. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1598 |
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