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hondel

verb /ˈhɒndəl/

  1. To bargain; to haggle.

    intransitive

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

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry hondel (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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