higgle-haggle

verb

To haggle.

Meanings

verbhiggle-haggle (third-person singular simple present higgle-haggles, present participle higgle-haggling, simple past and past participle higgle-haggled)

present singular third person higgle-haggles · participle present higgle-haggling · participle past higgle-haggled · past higgle-haggled

  1. datedTo haggle.
    1 more example

    […] and though his offer was "low, much too low, still it was he who had arranged the invitation to Sir Brooks'; and besides, Droigel was under obligations to him; and no one could say, or should say, Droigel was ungrateful, or higgle-haggled like a huckster. No paper, it was true, had been signed; but then Droigel's word was as good as his bond."

    1873, J. H. Riddell, Home, Sweet Home, volume 3, page 44
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