haggle

Signification (Anglais)

  1. (intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
  2. (transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
  3. To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

Concepts

débattre le prix

se douter de

faire baisser un prix

faire des hypothèses

admettre comme hypothèse

berlander

Fréquence

29k
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈhæɡəl/
Étymologie (Anglais)

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.

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