单词 | haggle |
释义 | hag·gle (hăgəl) v. hag·gled, hag·gling, hag·gles v.intr. 1. To bargain, as over the price of something; dicker: "He preferred to be overcharged than to haggle" (W. Somerset Maugham). 2. To argue in an attempt to come to terms. v.tr. 1. To cut (something) in a crude, unskillful manner; hack. 2. Archaic To harass or worry by wrangling. n. An instance of bargaining or arguing. [Frequentative of dialectal hag, to chop, hack, from Middle English haggen, from Old Norse höggva; see kau- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] haggler n. |
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