Haggle vs Squabble - What's the difference?
haggle | squabble | Synonyms |
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
To participate in a minor fight or argument.
* I. Watts
(printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
Haggle is a synonym of squabble.
In lang=en terms the difference between haggle and squabble
is that haggle is to hack (cut crudely) while squabble is to participate in a minor fight or argument.As verbs the difference between haggle and squabble
is that haggle is to argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller while squabble is to participate in a minor fight or argument.As a noun squabble is
a minor fight or argument as between children, for example.haggle
English
Verb
- 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.
Synonyms
* (to argue for a better deal) wrangleDerived terms
* hagglerSee also
* (l)squabble
English
Derived terms
* squabblyVerb
(squabbl)- ''The brothers were always squabbling with each other.
- The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.
- to squabble type