Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
HAGGLE
haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling
(noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
haggle, higgle, chaffer, huckster
(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); “Let’s not haggle over a few dollars”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
haggle (third-person singular simple present haggles, present participle haggling, simple past and past participle haggled)
(intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
(transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Synonyms
• (to argue for a better deal): wrangle
Source: Wiktionary
Hag"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling.] Etym: [Freq. of Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.]
Definition: To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.
Hag"gle, v. i.
Definition: To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood. Walpole.
Hag"gle, n.
Definition: The act or process of haggling. Carlyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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