hondel

present singular third person hondels · US participle present hondeling · UK participle present hondelling · US participle past hondeled · US past hondeled · UK participle past hondelled · UK past hondelled

1. intransitiveTo bargain; to haggle.

   It's the clanging of cash registers, the banging of beads, hawking, hondelling and the hooting of horns.

   1977, Janet Kaplan and Judy Stacey Goldman, The Underground Jerusalem Guide, Keter Pub. House

   3 more examples

   Some might call it religious hondeling, but Rabbi Rosenbaum finds himself doing just that, and more often than he cares to admit.

   2000, Paul Wilkes, And They Shall Be My People: An American Rabbi and His Congregation, Grove Press, page 135

   The Rabbi began to hondel with God, like Abraham, only in reverse. He asked for permission to make a 100 mistakes, then a thousand.

   2002, Zalman Velvel, What is a Jew?

   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.

   2007, Don Winslow, The Winter of Frankie Machine, Vintage Books, page 53