Crossword clues for haggling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haggle \Hag"gle\ (h[a^]g"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling (-gl[i^]ng).] [Freq. of Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.] To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.
Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er,
Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who haggles. vb. (present participle of haggle English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "haggling".
Geoff had seen uncountable instances of bartering and haggling over every conceivable item.
It was not much larger than a small eggshell, and while it was truly a beautiful object it hardly seemed worth such spirited haggling, let alone dying for.
After two months on the Nixon Impeachment Trail, my nerves were worn raw from the constant haggling and frustrated hostility of all those useless, early morning White House press briefings and long, sweaty afternoons pacing aimlessly around the corridors of the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill, waiting for crumbs of wisdom from any two or three of those 38 luckless congressmen on the House Judiciary Committee hearing evidence on the possible impeachment of Richard Nixon.
One night, after long haggling, he bought several mason jars full of home whiskey, which he drank while driving at high speed through the Beverly Hills area.
After a lot of haggling and argument, we eventually settled on a band master.
After some argument, haggling, and suggestions of violence, he produced bow, quiver, and arrows for eight pence.
The place was so crowded that the haggling was almost an orgy, and dizzy Peregrine almost blacked out.
Jahdo as viciously unjust that these people would be haggling over the ordinary details of their lives, something as petty as a gambling debt, probably, while they were dragging him off to slavery.
It was double the price he should have paid, but the searchers had ignored a man haggling with a street seller, and escaping detection was worth the price a hundred times over.
Laurie spent the better part of an hour haggling with the horse trader for two of his better mounts.
While the haggling got underway in earnest, Primilla was pondering the size of the loan.
He hurried through the crowd, dodging around clumps of haggling tradesmen and farmers, at one point ducking through a display of melons and almost toppling a pyramid of the great pale fruit.
So I approached him, did some haggling and bought out his entire stock at a cent and a half apiece.
He might have gone on haggling, or deciding to leave other items behind, but it was past noon now and coming up toward show time.
This was haggling of a fine art, way beyond the efforts of mere dragonboys.