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Higgles vs Higgler - What's the difference?

higgles | higgler |

As a verb higgles

is (higgle).

As a noun higgler is

(archaic) a person who trades in dairy, poultry, and small game animals.

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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    higgler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A person who trades in dairy, poultry, and small game animals.
  • A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices.

    • Quotations

    * 1749 — , Book III ch x *: He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers:

    Synonyms

    * (trader in dairy and poultry): wrangler * (person who haggles): haggler, wrangler