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Haggle vs Niggle - What's the difference?

haggle | niggle |

As verbs the difference between haggle and niggle

is that haggle is to argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller while niggle is to trifle with; to deceive; to mock.

As a noun niggle is

a minor complaint or problem.

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)

    niggle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A minor complaint or problem.
  • * 2012 , The Guardian, London 2012: Christian Taylor aims high as Phillips Idowu stays away , by Anna Kessel
    • The Olympic medal contender's back problem has been described as a "niggle " by the head coach, Charles van Commenee, but Porter's friend and former team-mate Danielle Carruthers revealed that the injury is playing on the Briton's mind.
  • (obsolete) Small, cramped handwriting.

    • Verb

    (niggl)
  • To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
  • To dwell too much on minor points.
  • To fidget, fiddle, be restless.

    • Derived terms

    * niggly

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