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Haggle vs Huggle - What's the difference?

haggle | huggle |

As verbs the difference between haggle and huggle

is that haggle is to argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller while huggle is to hug and snuggle simultaneously: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.

As a noun huggle is

a hug while snuggling: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.

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)

    huggle

    English

    Verb

  • (Internet, childish) To hug and snuggle simultaneously: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.
  • * '', e.g. in William Allingham, ''The ballad book: a selection of the choicest British ballads , Sever and Francis, 1865, p. 269.
    • Lie still, lie still, thou little Musgrave, , And huggle me from the cold; , 'tis nothing but a shepherds boy, , A-driving his sheep to fold.
  • (Internet) To hug and cuddle.
  • (archaic) To huddle.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Internet, childish) A hug while snuggling: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.