hondel

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈhɒndəl/

Definition of hondel

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To bargain; to haggle.
    “It's the clanging of cash registers, the banging of beads, hawking, hondelling and the hooting of horns.”
    “Some might call it religious hondeling, but Rabbi Rosenbaum finds himself doing just that, and more often than he cares to admit.”
    “The Rabbi began to hondel with God, like Abraham, only in reverse. He asked for permission to make a 100 mistakes, then a thousand.”
    “And I'll turn the offer down because it's a boss's kid, which Vince will understand: then we'll get down to the real hondeling.”

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Etymology

From Yiddish האַנדלען (handlen, “to trade”), from German handeln. Doublet of handle.

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