higgle-haggle

English

Verb

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

  1. (dated) To haggle.
    • 1873, J. H. Riddell, Home, Sweet Home, volume 3, page 44:
      […] 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."
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