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Haggles vs Higgles - What's the difference?

haggles | higgles |

As verbs the difference between haggles and higgles

is that haggles is (haggle) while higgles is (higgle).

haggles

English

Verb

(head)
  • (haggle)

    • haggle

    English

    Verb

  • To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
    • I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
  • To hack (cut crudely)
  • * Shakespeare
    • Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
    • I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper. Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.
  • To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
  • * Walpole
    • Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.

    Synonyms

    * (to argue for a better deal) wrangle

    Derived terms

    * haggler

    See also

    * (l)

    higgles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (higgle)

    • higgle

    English

    Verb

    (higgl)
  • (archaic) To hawk or peddle provisions.
  • (archaic) To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
    • To truck and higgle for a private good. — Emerson.

    Synonyms

    * haggle, wrangle, chaffer, huckster.

    Related terms

    Probably alteration of haggle.

    References

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