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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They could not comprehend why they should higgle about the language of the platform when they could carry the slave States on the one form of expression as well as the other.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
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 Ladye?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various
But it is idle to argue with the higgle of the market.
From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine
You first discuss the right, and you then higgle over the arithmetic.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James
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 Lanier, Sidney
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