Higgle

English synonyms: to dicker, to bargain, to wrangle, to haggle, to higgle, to huckster marchander un prix = to negotiate a price tenter de marchander = to try to bargain ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now our simple ways were a puzzle to him, as I told him very often; but he only laughed, and rubbed his mouth with the back of his dry shining hand, and I think he shortly began to languish for want of some one to higgle with. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

In the short run, buyers and sellers met to higgle on the marketplace, but basically the bargaining process revolved about a fixed quantity of goods—the diamonds that the diamond merchants brought along with them in their suitcases. ❋ Robert L. Heilbroner (1999)

An 'this is the shanty you wrote about with everything out and inside higgle-de-piggeldy! ❋ Gordon Sellar (N/A)

"Things will go higgle-ty-piggle-ty, sure as the world," said Kat, balancing on the edge of the table, and fanning with the duster. ❋ Fannie Belle Irving (N/A)

Oh, ye should not prig (higgle) with Him about anything. ❋ Thomas Houston (N/A)

The economic propensity to higgle and barter appeared early among the ❋ George Edmund Haynes (1920)

Did Mr. Wordsworth really imagine, that he favourite doctrines were likely to gain any thing in point of effect or authority by being put into the mouth of a person accustomed to higgle about tape, or brass sleeve-buttons? ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)

He does not tarry; he does not higgle and hesitate; he makes for the "straw pile" if in a New ❋ Unknown (1898)

To the day of his death, he never ceased to higgle over a thrip, and it was his constant boast that in his own experience it had always been convenient to give prudence the upper hand of pride. ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)

But the eyes of the crafty, sly old peasant gleamed with delight at the thought of how nicely he had pulled the wool over the eyes of those dirty blackguards, who were beginning to higgle with him over the quality of the meat he furnished to them. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

His great Father forbid that we should juggle in order to prove Him so -- that we should higgle for an inch of wound more, or an inch less, and haggle for the root?? ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

Perhaps it is the gamey taste thus induced that enables them to enjoy joints from the butcher which are downright tainted, for it is characteristic of the place and people on the one hand to dine on the very best, as above, and yet to higgle over a halfpenny a pound at the shop. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

Shall we stand here and higgle about terms when the roar of the tornado is heard that threatens to sweep our Government from the face of the earth? ❋ Unknown (1862)

They could not comprehend why they should higgle about the language of the platform when they could carry the slave States on the one form of expression as well as the other. ❋ James Gillespie Blaine (1861)

How is a wretched widow in the midst of her agony, or how are orphan children, deprived of the protecting hand of a parent, to higgle with a tradesman about the cheapening of mourning suits, black gloves, weepers, and the other miserable "trappings of woe"? ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)