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haggle (HAG-uhl) - v., to cut roughly or clumsily; to bargain, as over the price of something.
I can't recall seeing that first sense, so possibly mark that as either rare or regional/dialect, but I include it as part of the history: this is the frequentive of hack -- or rather of Middle English hacken via its variant haggen. The metaphoric bargaining sense didn't develop until Elizabethan times, with the idea of hacking at a price. Huh!
---L.
I can't recall seeing that first sense, so possibly mark that as either rare or regional/dialect, but I include it as part of the history: this is the frequentive of hack -- or rather of Middle English hacken via its variant haggen. The metaphoric bargaining sense didn't develop until Elizabethan times, with the idea of hacking at a price. Huh!
---L.
