haggle

WOTD - 25 September 2010    

English

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), dingen (de), 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) Norwegian: prute (no) Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: targować się (pl) Portuguese: pechinchar (pt), regatear (pt), barganhar (pt) Russian: торговаться (ru) (torgovát'sja) Spanish: regatear (es), escatimar (es) Swedish: pruta (sv) Turkish: please add this translation if you can