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Haggle vs Daggle - What's the difference?

haggle | daggle |

In lang=en terms the difference between haggle and daggle

is that haggle is to hack (cut crudely) while daggle is to trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.

As verbs the difference between haggle and daggle

is that haggle is to argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller while daggle is to run, go, or trail oneself through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.

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)

    daggle

    English

    Verb

    (daggl)
  • To run, go, or trail oneself through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town.
  • To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The warrior's very plume, I say, / Was daggled by the dashing spray.
    (Webster 1913)