1632 R. Sherwood Dict. sig. Rij/1 in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A haggling, barguigne.

1666 J. Davies tr. E. d'Aranda Hist. Algiers 112 In fine, after a little hagling, they agreed at five hundred Ducats.

1765 W. Cowper Let. 3 Dec. in Wks. (1853) II. 185 Disagreeable haggling, and higgling, and twisting, and wriggling, to save my money.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 95 After some haggling he consented to sell..his pretensions..for a pension of five hundred pounds a year.

1921 Domest. Engin. 30 Apr. 218/1 These were the times when a business transaction, in true Oriental fashion of today, meant a series of hagglings.

2014 Epicure (Singapore) Feb. 111 Haggling is no longer part of the shopping culture of Arequipa.

1761 J. Mordant Compl. Steward I. 138 Let the amputation be made with a sharp bill without any haggling.

1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 181 Half the chiaroscuro is totally destroyed by the haggling, blackening, and ‘making out’ of the engravers.

1901 Country Gentleman 3 Jan. 12/3 50 per cent. [of the horses] have their days shortened by improper cutting and haggling of their feet by incompetent persons who nail iron to their feet, as I cannot call it shoeing in any sense.

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Theses Martinianæ 30 Suffer no more of these haggling and profane pamphlets to be published against Martin.

1764 V. J. Peyton Compend. Dict. French Lang. at Tracassier A haggling man.

1824 J. Wight Mornings at Bow St. 220 Vexations which he had suffered from Mrs Rebecca—such..as ordering him to cut off a quantity of calico, and then refusing to have it—‘Haggling’ customers, of her sort, were more trouble than a little.

1916 W. Gordon Woman in Balkans vi. 69 The children..were..playing ‘tag’ in and under the stalls or round the groups of haggling vendors.

2016 L. M. Bogad Electoral Guerilla Theatre (ed. 2) 249 The public sphere became a mere haggling market of conflicting interests.