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Higgle

Higgle \Hig"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Higgled; p. pr. & vb. n. Higgling.] [Cf. Haggle, or Huckster.]

  1. To hawk or peddle provisions.

  2. To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.

    A person accustomed to higgle about taps.
    --Jeffry.

    To truck and higgle for a private good.
    --Emerson.

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higgle

vb. 1 (context archaic English) To hawk or peddle provisions. 2 (context archaic English) To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

WordNet
higgle

v. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: haggle, chaffer, huckster]

Usage examples of "higgle".

Mada Joyce did some higgle ring in the neighbourhood, taking produce from the small holdings down to the market in the coastal town of Annotto to sell and buying any goods the villagers might require while she was there.

In England, or in any other great mercantile country, the bulk of the things bought and sold goes through the hands of a wholesale dealer, and it is he who higgles and bargains with an entire nation of purchasers by entering into treaty with retail sellers.

Threepence had a definite value as money—it was an appreciable infringement on a day’s wages, and, as such, a higgling matter.

She's paying off the jarvey, but she don't look to me like one as'll stand higgling over the fare, so you'd do well to stir your stumps!