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haggles

haggles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of haggle.

Meaning of haggle

Verb

haggle (third-person singular simple present haggles, present participle haggling, simple past and past participle haggled)

  1. (intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices between a buyer and seller.
    • I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
    Synonyms:
    bargain, chaffer
  2. (transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
    • Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  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.

Questions about haggles

What is haggles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Haggles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of haggle.

Words near haggles in the dictionary

  1. haggl'd
  2. haggle
  3. haggled
  4. haggler
  5. hagglers
  6. haggles
  7. haggling
  8. hagglings
  9. haggly
  10. haggravate
  11. haggravated

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