higgle
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably an alteration of haggle.
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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
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References[edit]
- “higgle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.