higgle
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of higgle
First recorded in 1625–35; apparently variant of haggle
Example Sentences
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"This is only my third detection, and half of it voluntary, I might say, if I chose to higgle, which I scorn to do."
From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Maria Edgeworth
Come, Rouse; I sold fifty strake of barley to-day in half this time; but you will higgle and higgle for a penny more than the commodity is worth.
From The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar
So, next day, Charles set to work to higgle with the curate.
From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen
She always bought the best of everything, and did not higgle long about the price.
From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
Shall lovers higgle, heart for heart, Till wooing grows a trading mart Where much for little, and all for part, Make love a cheapening art, Fair Lady?
From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier
The Brazilian delegation at Lima was told it could string along with the 20 other American nations in ratifying the "solidarity" declaration over which the conference had higgled for a fortnight.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the beginning he had higgled and haggled himself to a sad frazzle, even arguing that the skin game is an old Connecticut custom, making us worthy of our reputation as peddlers of wooden nutmegs.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Hum!..." grunted Scattergood, and higgled and argued, but ended by accepting a deed for the land and turning over the machine to Landers.
From Scattergood Baines by Clarence Budington Kelland
Now I'll engage this Mrs. Hundredacres, or Halfacre, or whatever her name may be, overlooked her own household work, kept no housekeeper, higgled about flour and butter, and lived half her time in her basement.
From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper
So they higgled and haggled, but at last they gave him the three hundred roubles.
From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
Last month the Hearst magazines-also finally fell into line after a deal of higgling & haggling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir Austen declared last week that this exalted chaffering and higgling are still going forward in "friendly" fashion.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the higgling & haggling was finished, Fisherman Killam had not one million dollars but $2,500,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Mynatt went on higgling and resumed work on the plant.
From Time Magazine Archive
I knew my master had fallen into despair when he took the herdsmen’s first offer without so much as a higgling nudge or a haggling speech.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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