Definition of "haggle"

haggle

/ˈhæɡəl/

verb
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 with a seller.
  Quotations
  ‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’
  2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 184
2. (transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
  Quotations
  Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
  1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene vi]
  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.
  1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […]
3. To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
  Quotations
  Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
  June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway