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Haggle   /hˈægəl/   Listen
Haggle

noun
1.
An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining).  Synonyms: haggling, wrangle, wrangling.



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"Haggle" Quotes from Famous Books



... enthusiasm. "There isn't a girl in our set that can come anywhere near her, and I think it is a dashed shame that she's thrown out on her own. She took the whole business like a thoroughbred, walking calmly out like that and leaving them to haggle over the details." ...
— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant

... little more widely still, toward a circuitous egotistical outbreak, from the immediate question of the merits of this and that author or of the condition of this and that volume. He had come to be conscious through it all of strangely glaring at people when they tried to haggle—and not, as formerly, with the glare of derisive comment on their overdone humour, but with that of fairly idiotised surrender—as if they were much mistaken in supposing, for the sake of conversation, that he might ...
— The Finer Grain • Henry James

... Boughton needed some one to do the heavy work, while he collected most of the profits. This business future, and three thousand dollars in the bank, led Code one day to send to St. John's for an architect, and to haggle with Al Green concerning the cost of a piece of land overlooking the ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams

... every year, making proper allowances for the scarcity and plenty of the times, the cheapness and dearness of the place; and that THE USUAL AND ACCUSTOMED WAGES are words without any force or meaning, when there are no such; but every man spunges and raps whatever he can get; and will haggle as long and struggle as hard to cheat his employer of twopence in a day's labor as an honest tradesman will to cheat his customers of the same sum in a yard of ...
— Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon • Henry Fielding

... 've been with us the first three days. Great menu—raw fish, cocoanuts, more cocoanuts, and then, just when we were whetting our teeth for a nice fat snake or an entree of caterpillars, I landed that old papa leopard. Managed to haggle some of the india rubber off his bones. Tough!—but it was filling. All the same, we didn't wear out any more teeth on him after we got up the cleft and found the cubs. They ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

... something braver in life than to be just reasonable, thank God! And so, we keep the faith, my dear, however obsolete we find fidelity to be. We keep to the old faith—we of Lichfield, who have given hostages to the past. We remember even now that we gave freely in an old time, and did not haggle.... And so, we are proud—yes! we are consumedly proud, and we know that we have earned the right to ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell

... Bintrey, with a chuckle: probably occasioned by the droll circumstance that they had been paid without a haggle. ...
— No Thoroughfare • Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins



Words linked to "Haggle" :   bargain down, haggler, bargain, beat down, dicker, bargaining



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