haggle

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈhæɡəl/    美 /ˈhæɡəl/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller. intransitive
    — I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
  2. To hack (cut crudely) transitive
    — Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
  3. To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
    — June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.

词形变化

haggles present,singular,third-person haggling participle,present haggled participle,past haggled past

词汇关系

衍生词
haggler higgle-haggle unhaggling wraggle
相关词
bargain negotiate

词源

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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