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Gaggled vs Haggled - What's the difference?

gaggled | haggled |

As verbs the difference between gaggled and haggled

is that gaggled is (gaggle) while haggled is (haggle).

gaggled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gaggle)

    • gaggle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
  • *
  • Any group or gathering of related things; bunch.
  • * '>citation

    • Verb

    (gaggl)
  • To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • * 1733 , , "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II ):
    • When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?

    See also

    * skein * wedge English collective nouns

    haggled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (haggle)

    • haggle

    English

    Verb

  • To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
    • I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
  • To hack (cut crudely)
  • * Shakespeare
    • Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
    • 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.
  • To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
  • * Walpole
    • Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.

    Synonyms

    * (to argue for a better deal) wrangle

    Derived terms

    * haggler

    See also

    * (l)