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To haggle is to argue back and forth while you try to agree a price — one side says too high, the other too low, until they settle. You hear it in markets and with street sellers. In a shop with a printed price, haggling is unusual and can feel rude. The word can sound a little sharp, like chopping at the price; bargain is softer. It is not about any argument, only about the price.
殺價；討價還價。台灣口語常說「殺價」；中國大陸較常說「砍價」。
組成From the 1570s, “to cut unevenly” (already in haggler), a frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), a variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le. The “argue about price” sense is first recorded around 1600, probably from the picture of chopping a price down bit by bit.
同家族的字
- hackhaggle is hack + the frequentative ending -le: first “cut unevenly”, then “chip away at a price”
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
haggleverb/ˈhæɡəl/
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To argue for a better deal, especially over prices between a buyer and seller.
- I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
- ‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’
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To hack (cut crudely)
- Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
- 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.
- 3
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
- June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。