haggle

WOTD – 25 September 2010    

English

Etymology

haggle (v.) 1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of haggen "to chop" (see hack (v.1)). Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away. Related: Haggled; haggling.

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Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈhæɡəl/

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• Rhymes: -æɡəl

Verb

haggle (third-person singular simple present haggles, present participle haggling, simple past and past participle haggled)

1. (intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.

   I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.

2. (transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
   • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII

     I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper. Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.

Synonyms

• (to argue for a better deal): wrangle

Derived terms

• haggler

Translations

to argue for a better deal

• Arabic: ساوم (ar) (saawama)
• Armenian: սակարկել (hy) (sakarkel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 討價還價 (cmn), 讨价还价 (cmn) (tǎojiàhuánjià), 計較 (cmn), 计较 (cmn) (jìjiào)

• Czech: smlouvat (cs), hadrkovat se (cs)
• Danish: prutte (da), købslå (da)
• Dutch: afdingen (nl)
• Esperanto: marĉandi (eo)
• Finnish: tinkiä (fi)
• French: marchander (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: feilschen (de), (dated) markten (de)
• Greek: διαπραγματεύομαι (el) (diapragmatévomai), (colloquial) παζαρεύω (el) (pazarévo)

• Hungarian: alkudozik (hu)
• Icelandic: prútta (is)
• Italian: contrattare (it), tirare sul prezzo (it), mercanteggiare (it)
• Japanese: 値切る (ja) (ねぎる, negiru)
• Korean: 깎다 (ko) (kkakkda)
• Norwegian: prute (no)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: targować się (pl)
• Portuguese: pechinchar (pt), regatear (pt), barganhar (pt)
• Romanian: neguța (ro), țigăni (ro)
• Russian: торговаться (ru) (torgovát'sja)
• Serbo-Croatian: цењкати (sh)
• Spanish: regatear (es), escatimar (es)
• Swedish: pruta (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can