higgle
English
Etymology
Probably an alteration of haggle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɪɡəl/
Verb
higgle (third-person singular simple present higgles, present participle higgling, simple past and past participle higgled)
- (archaic) To hawk or peddle provisions.
- (archaic) To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle.
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation
- to truck and higgle for a private good
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation
Synonyms
- haggle, wrangle, chaffer, huckster.
References
- higgle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913