haggle
verb /ˈhæɡl/
/ˈhæɡl/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they haggle | /ˈhæɡl/ /ˈhæɡl/ |
| he / she / it haggles | /ˈhæɡlz/ /ˈhæɡlz/ |
| past simple haggled | /ˈhæɡld/ /ˈhæɡld/ |
| past participle haggled | /ˈhæɡld/ /ˈhæɡld/ |
| -ing form haggling | /ˈhæɡlɪŋ/ /ˈhæɡlɪŋ/ |
- to argue with somebody in order to reach an agreement, especially about the price of something
- haggle over/about something I left him in the market haggling over the price of a shirt.
- haggle with somebody over/about something We spent a long time haggling with the authorities over our visas.
- haggle something You can sometimes haggle a good discount.
- haggle something down (to something) I managed to haggle the price down to something more reasonable.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘hack, mangle’): from Old Norse hǫggva ‘hew’.