haggle

Noun

an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)

Verb

Verb Forms: haggle, haggled, haggling, haggles

To dispute or bargain persistently over the price of something.
wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
- "Let's not haggle over a few dollars"
To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
To hack (cut crudely)
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

Examples

After a long HAGGLE over a word’s validity, the Scrabble dictionary finally settled the debate.
I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.

Origin / Etymology

1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.

Synonyms

chaffer, haggling, higgle, huckster, wrangle, wrangling, bargain

Scrabble Score: 11

haggle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
haggle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
haggle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

haggle: valid Words With Friends Word