| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb higgle.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (higgle) | 1. Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.).[Wordnet]. 2. To hawk or peddle provisions.[Websters]. 3. To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.[Websters]. 4. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: higgling, higgled, higgles, higgler, higglers, higglingly and higgledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HIGGLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Specialty Definition: higgle
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To carry provisions about and offer them for sale.. | 2: [Verb] To chaffer; to be difficult in making a bargain. It argues an ignorant mind, where we have wronged to higgle and dodge in the amends.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | [Verb] (archaic) To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson. (references) | ||
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