haggler
English
Etymology
haggle + -er
Noun
haggler (plural hagglers)
- A person who haggles.
- (formerly) A person who buys vegetables and other produce from farms and then sells them on in a different location; a person who transports farm goods.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 4:
- 'Then what might your meaning be in calling me "Sir John" these different times, when I be plain Jack Durbeyfield, the haggler?'
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Translations
person who haggles
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