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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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
Such right of registering, properly of mere writing down, the Parlement has got by old wont; and, though but a Law-Court, can remonstrate, and higgle considerably about the same.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Your doctor has n't even the cabman's privilege to higgle for a trifle more.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
A starving man cannot higgle over the conditions of employment.
From Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions by Kennedy, James B.
Huck′stress.—v.i. to deal in small articles, to higgle meanly.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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
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
Well, much as they feared the rats, they feared parting with their money more, and fain would they have higgled and haggled.
From More English Fairy Tales by Batten, John Dickson
If Reginald had been first, he would have gone through like a cat, but the foreign gent, older, and obstructed by the contents of his pocket, higgled and stuck a few seconds in the window.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles
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 Cooper, James Fenimore
Sir Austen declared last week that this exalted chaffering and higgling are still going forward in "friendly" fashion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last month the Hearst magazines-also finally fell into line after a deal of higgling & haggling.
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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