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haggle.

To argue for a better deal, especially over prices between a buyer and seller.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈhæɡəl/UK, US
  1. To argue for a better deal, especially over prices between a buyer and seller.

    intransitive
    I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
  2. To hack (cut crudely)

    transitive
  3. To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

Where this word comes from

1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.

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