Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to haggle
Participle: haggled
Gerund: haggling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | haggle |
| you | haggle |
| he;she;it | haggles |
| we | haggle |
| you | haggle |
| they | haggle |
Perfect
| I | have haggled |
| you | have haggled |
| he;she;it | has haggled |
| we | have haggled |
| you | have haggled |
| they | have haggled |
Past
| I | haggled |
| you | haggled |
| he;she;it | haggled |
| we | haggled |
| you | haggled |
| they | haggled |
Pluperfect
| I | had haggled |
| you | had haggled |
| he;she;it | had haggled |
| we | had haggled |
| you | had haggled |
| they | had haggled |
Future
| I | will haggle |
| you | will haggle |
| he;she;it | will haggle |
| we | will haggle |
| you | will haggle |
| they | will haggle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have haggled |
| you | will have haggled |
| he;she;it | will have haggled |
| we | will have haggled |
| you | will have haggled |
| they | will have haggled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | haggle |
| you | haggle |
| he;she;it | haggle |
| we | haggle |
| you | haggle |
| they | haggle |
Perfect
| I | have haggled |
| you | have haggled |
| he;she;it | have haggled |
| we | have haggled |
| you | have haggled |
| they | have haggled |
Imperfect
| I | haggled |
| you | haggled |
| he;she;it | haggled |
| we | haggled |
| you | haggled |
| they | haggled |
Pluperfect
| I | had haggled |
| you | had haggled |
| he;she;it | had haggled |
| we | had haggled |
| you | had haggled |
| they | had haggled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would haggle |
| you | would haggle |
| he;she;it | would haggle |
| we | would haggle |
| you | would haggle |
| they | would haggle |
Perfect
| I | would have haggled |
| you | would have haggled |
| he;she;it | would have haggled |
| we | would have haggled |
| you | would have haggled |
| they | would have haggled |
Imperative
| you | haggle |
| we | Let's haggle |
| you | haggle |
Verbs conjugated like 'haggle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'haggle'
daggle,
gaggle,
higgle,
huggle,
paggle,
raggle,
waggle,
angle,
augle,
bangle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- bargain
- deal, dicker, chaffer, wrangle, huckster, buy, negotiate, palter
- argue
- cavil, dispute, wrangle
- harass
- annoy, badger, bait, fret, tease, vex, worry
- mangle
- chop, whack, cut, hack
Antonyms
- argue
- harmonize, overlook, ignore, propound
- harass
- comfort, cheer, console, compose
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1577, "to cut unevenly" (implied in
haggler), freq. of
haggen "to chop" (see hack (1)). Sense of "argue about price" first recorded 1602, probably from notion of chopping away.
2. 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. See: Middle English '
haggen'.
Sample Sentences
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I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
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‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’ [2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 184:]
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Last month, while officials from Washington and Beijing were haggling over whether to roll back tariffs that had brought their trade to a standstill, Chinese companies announced plans to invest about $4.7 billion in Brazil. [2025 June 20, Meaghan Tobin, “Chinese Companies Set Their Sights on Brazil”, in The New York Times:]
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Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. [1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:]
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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. [1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:]
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June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway
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Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.