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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To bargain, as over the price of something; dicker: "He preferred to be overcharged than to haggle” ( W. Somerset Maugham).
  2. v. To argue in an attempt to come to terms.
  3. v. To cut (something) in a crude, unskillful manner; hack.
  4. v. Archaic To harass or worry by wrangling.
  5. n. An instance of bargaining or arguing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To hack roughly; cut or chop in an unskilful manner; mangle in cutting.
  2. To tease; worry.
  3. To bargain in a petty and tedious manner; higgle; stick at small matters; cavil.
  4. n. A haggling or chaffering.
  5. To hail.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
  2. v. To hack (cut crudely)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting.
  2. v. To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
  3. n. The act or process of haggling.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
  2. v. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

Etymologies

  1. Frequentative of dialectal hag, to chop, hack, from Middle English haggen, from Old Norse höggva; see kau- in Indo-European roots.

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