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Hangle vs Haggle - What's the difference?

hangle | haggle |

As a noun hangle

is a hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.

As a verb haggle is

to argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.

hangle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.
  • A form of hanger by which the scabbard of a sword was suspended, attached not necessarily to the girdle, but sometimes to two rings fastened to the cuirass at its bottom edge, one over the left hip, the other near the middle of the back.
  • 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)