higgle

present singular third person higgles · participle present higgling · participle past higgled · past higgled

1. archaicTo hawk or peddle provisions.
2. archaicTo wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle.

   to truck and higgle for a private good

   1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

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   The genius of a people vvhere nothing but the monarchy is ſalique, having ceded this department, vvith ſundry others, totally to the vvomen—by a continual higgling vvith cuſtomers of all ranks and ſizes from morning to night, like ſo many rough pebbles ſhook long together in a bag, by amicable colliſions, they have vvorn dovvn their aſperities and ſharp angles, and not only become round and ſmooth, but vvill receive, ſome of them, a poliſh like a brilliant— […]

   1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], “The Husband. Paris.”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, pages 171–172