Higgled vs Piggled - What's the difference?
higgled | piggled |
(higgle)
(archaic) To hawk or peddle provisions.
(archaic) To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
(piggle)
(rare) A long-handled fork for mixing or digging.
* 1859 , Murray's Handbook for Devon and Cornwall page 244:
To dig or uproot; to scrape.
* 1841 , Charles Hooton, Colin Clink page 140:
To toy with or fiddle.
* 1876 , Alfred Dawson, English Landscape Art, in its Position and Prospects page 16:
* 1922 , D.H. Lawrence, The Fox page 48:
To cause to worry, to make uncomfortable; niggle.
* 1899 , David Belasco, "Naughty Anthony":
To worry about minor points.
* 1836 , Joanna Baillee, "The Alienated Manor: A Comedy":
As verbs the difference between higgled and piggled
is that higgled is (higgle) while piggled is (piggle).higgled
English
Verb
(head)higgle
English
Verb
(higgl)- To truck and higgle for a private good. — Emerson.
Synonyms
* haggle, wrangle, chaffer, huckster.References
*piggled
English
Verb
(head)piggle
English
Noun
(en noun)- A heap of it is then placed upon an inclined platform, under a small fall of water, and repeatedly stirred with a piggle and shovel...
Verb
(en-verb)- I took my revenge on th' round-house, for I piggled all th' plaster off o' the walls that I could...
- Then all nature was presently converted into an object for microscopic study, so that everything, whether near or far, must be piggled at and made clear to the utmost limit of human power.
- Banford, at the other end of the table, said not a word, but piggled with the sardine on her plate.
- BUDD. Get up yourself, and shut up, too! You have piggled me enough, you old smooty-snoot!
- But of what value is all that piggling , niggling, — you call the little thing piggling, niggling?