HAGGLE, HAGGLER, HAGGLING
ADJECTIVES
► NAFFING chattering; peevish; haggling over a bargain → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PRIGGING bargaining, haggling → a1653 Sc. obs.
NOUNS
► ARGIE-BARGIE ► ARGY-BARGY a contention, a quarrel; a dispute in words; haggling, generally implying impatience with the speaker → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BANTER a haggling about prices → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BANTING haggling → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BATING haggling, beating down in price → 1851 Eng. dial.
► PRIGGING haggling over a price or the terms of a deal; hard bargaining → 1591 chiefly Sc.
► TIG-TAGGING the act of haggling → 1825 Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► HAFTER a caviller, a wrangler, a haggler, a dodger → 1519 obs.
► HIGGLER one who higgles or chaffers in bargaining; a haggler → 1602
► HUCKER a petty dealer; a person who bargains or haggles → a1400 obs.
► PALTERER an equivocator; a shuffler; one who plays fast and loose; a haggler, a huckster; one who acts evasively → 1589
► PALTRER an equivocator; a shuffler; one who plays fast and loose; a haggler, a huckster; one who acts evasively → 1589
VERBS
► ARGIE-BARGIE ► ARGY-BARGY to argue, to bandy words, to dispute; to contend; to haggle → 1885 Sc.
► ARGLE-BARGLE to argue, quarrel, cavil, dispute, contend; to haggle, to bandy words → 1727 chiefly Eng. dial. and Sc.
► BADGER to barter; to beat down in price; to haggle over a bargain → 1865 Eng. dial.
► BANT to beat down in price; to haggle → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BANTER to cheapen, to haggle → 1793 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► BANTER DOWN to beat down in price → 1864 Eng. dial.
► BATE DOWN to haggle, to force the seller to lower his price → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BEAT THE BARGAIN to endeavour to bring down the price; to chaffer for the lowest terms; to cheapen → 1640 obs.
► BEAT THE MARKET to endeavour to bring down the price; to chaffer for the lowest terms; to cheapen → 1655 obs.
► BEAT THE PRICE to endeavour to bring down the price; to chaffer for the lowest terms; to cheapen → 1592 obs.
► BICKER to haggle, to bargain
► CAFFLE to prevaricate, to argue, to haggle → 1886 Eng. dial.
► CANGLE to quarrel, to wrangle, to haggle → 1660 Sc.
► CHEW DOWN to haggle or bargain to receive a lower price → 1965 Amer. dial.
► CUT ONE DOWN to get a lower price by haggling aggressively → 1966 Amer. dial.
► HACK to hesitate, to haggle → 1587 obs.
► HACKER to haggle → 1833 Eng. dial.
► HACKLE to haggle, to chaffer → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAFT to use subtlety or deceit; to use shifts or dodges; to haggle, to cavil; to avoid coming to the point, to hold off, to hang back, to hesitate → 1519 obs.
► HAG ► HAGG to haggle, to dispute, to argue → 1892 Eng. dial.
► HAGGER to haggle over a price → 1970 Amer. dial.
► HUCK to haggle over a bargain; to bargain → a1400 obs.
► HUCKER to haggle about the price → 1548 obs.
► HUCKLE to haggle in bargaining → 1644 obs.
► JEW DOWN to beat someone down in price; to haggle → 1848 sl., derogatory & offensive
► NAGGLE to gnaw; to nag, to quarrel, to haggle → 1869
► NEEDLE to haggle, esp. if one takes advantage of the other person → 1812 sl. (Bk.)
► NIFFER to haggle, to bargain, to deal, to have business transactions with → 1699 Sc.
► PALTER to shuffle or haggle in bargaining; to huckster, bargain, or parley in matters of duty or honour → 1611
► PRIG to haggle over the price of something offered for sale → a1628 chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PRIG-PENNY to haggle over small amounts of money; to drive a hard bargain → a1522 Sc., obs.
► RAGGLE to haggle in bargaining → a1838 Sc.
► THREAP to beat down in a bargain or argument; to browbeat, to talk down; to haggle over a bargain → 1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TIGGLE-TAGGLE to be a long time making a bargain; to haggle → 1905 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► TIG-TAG to continue in reciprocal action; to bicker; to haggle in bargaining → 1643 Sc.