higgle

[ hig-uhl ]

verb (used without object)

, hig·gled, hig·gling.

1. to bargain, especially in a petty way; haggle.

higgle

/ ˈhɪɡəl /

verb

1. a less common word for haggle

Derived Forms

• ˈhiggler, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of higgle¹

First recorded in 1625–35; apparently variant of haggle

Example Sentences

"Eli, my man, an yon merchant comes our way let us buy a hundred ells of cloth of him, and not higgle."

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It is a great wrong, none can conceive a greater, than to trade in the bodies of men, to higgle in the market-place about the price of our brother, to traffic in our sister's flesh and bones as merchandise.

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How heartless the Chinese, who, before they save a drowning man, first higgle about the reward, and take pleasure in pestilence, famine, etc., because those who survive profit by them.

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Higgle, hig′l, v.i. to make difficulty in bargaining: to chaffer.—v.i.

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Huck′stress.—v.i. to deal in small articles, to higgle meanly.—n.

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