haggle
/ˈhæɡəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.65 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high."
- "‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’"
- "Last month, while officials from Washington and Beijing were haggling over whether to roll back tariffs that had brought their trade to a standstill, Chinese companies announced plans to invest about $4.7 billion in Brazil."
- "Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped."
- "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."
- "June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhæɡəl/
- British English: /ˈhæɡəl/