Daggles vs Haggles - What's the difference?
daggles | haggles |
(daggle)
To run, go, or trail oneself through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
* Alexander Pope
To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
* Sir Walter Scott
(haggle)
To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
To hack (cut crudely)
* Shakespeare
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
* Walpole
As verbs the difference between daggles and haggles
is that daggles is (daggle) while haggles is (haggle).daggles
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(head)daggle
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(daggl)- Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town.
- The warrior's very plume, I say, / Was daggled by the dashing spray.
haggles
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(head)haggle
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- I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
- 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.
- Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.