higgle
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of higgle
First recorded in 1625–35; apparently variant of haggle
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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
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
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 James Gillespie Blaine
Your doctor has n't even the cabman's privilege to higgle for a trifle more.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
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
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
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
At first the hillfolk wouldn't hear of such a bargain and higgled and haggled with the man, but he stuck to what he said, and at last they gave up the mill for the bacon.
From East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon by Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen
The two seconds met, and, with great unction, pledged "our honor to each other that we would endeavor to settle the matter amicably," but persistently higgled over points till publicity and arrests seemed imminent.
From A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History by John George Nicolay
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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