Definitions for haggle

haggle hag·gle

Spelling: [hag-uh l]
IPA: /ˈhæg əl/

Haggle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in haggle (aegghl).

Definitions for haggle

noun

  1. the act of haggling; wrangle or dispute over terms.

verb (used with object)

  1. to mangle in cutting; hack.
  2. to settle on by haggling.
  3. Archaic. to harass with wrangling or haggling.

verb (used without object)

  1. to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner:
  2. to wrangle, dispute, or cavil:

Origin of haggle

1275-1325; Middle English haggen to cut, chop (Old Norse hǫggva to hew) + -le

Examples for haggle

There was a point beyond which the Earl of Barfield could not haggle.

You haggle over these trifles, and—why, look at your cabinet list!

At any rate, after the haggle of tax collection was finished, Bones set about his task.

Perhaps he wished he had said more, when Tom did not haggle over the price.

For twenty-four hours the haggle went on as to terms of capitulation.

The Republican rep wants lawmakers to extend the Bush tax cuts, and haggle over the rest later.

We're just left to haggle over price: Should the successful pay forward 36% of their success or 39% or 28% or what.

He did not perceive the reasons or the consequences of it, and this was what induced him to haggle.

haggle over the numbers and details, attack the Senate for their failure to pass a budget, and then cut the best deal possible.

Finally, the Hagel haggle highlighted a critical lesson for the pro-Israel community.

Word Value for haggle
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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