haggle
意味
- (値段を)押し問答する,値切る《+about(over)+名》
- (…のことで)言い争う《+about(over)+名(doing)》
- 押し問答,値切り,言争い
例文
Don't haggle over a small sum of money.
わずかな額のことで言い争うのはよせ。
An Indian buyer and a Japanese businessman haggled over the price of the new product.
インドのバイヤーと日本のビジネスマンは新製品の値をめぐって激しいやりとりをした。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.