higgle

American  

[hig-uhl] / ˈhɪg əl /

verb (used without object)

higgled, higgling

1. to bargain, especially in a petty way; haggle.

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higgle British  

/ ˈhɪɡəl /

verb

1. a less common word for haggle

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Other Word Forms

• higgler noun

Etymology

Origin of higgle

First recorded in 1625–35; apparently variant of haggle

Example Sentences

You first discuss the right, and you then higgle over the arithmetic.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James

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

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

If I were a man in station I would say, now is the time to pay all Alabama claims, and not higgle whether we owe them or not.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund

A starving man cannot higgle over the conditions of employment.

From Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions by Kennedy, James B.