higgler

American  

[hig-ler] / ˈhɪg lər /

noun

1. a peddler or huckster.

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Etymology

Origin of higgler

First recorded in 1630–40; higgle + -er ¹

Example Sentences

From pugger to quarrel-picker to higgler, the bygone artisanal trades of Britain once defined working life for most.

From The Wall Street Journal

Consider buddleboy, bogeyman, bumboat man, flirter, higgler, pugger, muffleman, quarrel picker, spittle-maker, whiff-maker and willy man.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her mother, Maxine Simpson, supported her three children by working as a higgler, a street vendor.

From Washington Post

Her mother was a “higgler,” she said, who trawled the Jamaican countryside for surplus produce to resell at market.

From New York Times

The mode adopted by such men to draw the ignorant higgler into a dark room, where he was generally fleeced, was by assuring him that no one could see them, and as for a glass of old Tom, he would pay for that himself, merely for the pleasure of shewing his goods.

From Project Gutenberg