From Wiktionary.org:
Verb[edit]
haggle (third-person singular simple present haggles, present participle haggling, simple past and past participle haggled)
- (intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
- I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
- (transitive) To hack (cut crudely) [quotations ▲]
- Shakespeare
- Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII
- 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.
- Shakespeare
- To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. [quotations ▲]
- Walpole
- Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
- Walpole
