Chaffer vs Higgle - What's the difference?
chaffer | higgle | Synonyms |
To haggle or barter.
* Dryden
* 1985 , , Kingdom of the Wicked :
To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Bargaining; merchandise.
(agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed
* {{quote-book, 2003, William W. Casady, chapter=Grain Harvesting Systems, editor=Dennis R. Heldman, Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering
, passage=A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.}}
(archaic) To hawk or peddle provisions.
(archaic) To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
Chaffer is a synonym of higgle.
As verbs the difference between chaffer and higgle
is that chaffer is to haggle or barter while higgle is (archaic) to hawk or peddle provisions.As a noun chaffer
is bargaining; merchandise or chaffer can be (agriculture) the upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.chaffer
English
Etymology 1
From cheap fare .Verb
(en verb)- To chaffer for preferments with his gold.
- But the people looked much like Caleb’s own. They wore dirty robes, chaffered at fruit stalls, spat, scratched.
- (Trench)
Synonyms
* bargain * barter * haggle * negotiateNoun
- (Holished)
Etymology 2
FromNoun
(en noun)citation
Coordinate terms
* blower * cleaning sievehiggle
English
Verb
(higgl)- To truck and higgle for a private good. — Emerson.