higgler

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Consider buddleboy, bogeyman, bumboat man, flirter, higgler, pugger, muffleman, quarrel picker, spittle-maker, whiff-maker and willy man.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

From pugger to quarrel-picker to higgler, the bygone artisanal trades of Britain once defined working life for most.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

This meant a marriage feast for Mary; nor would the higgler permit of the least delay in its preparation.

From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.

So I persuaded the council to become security with their seal to the old higgler for half a year, and we obtained provision again from the old sheep.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav

One week Mr. Druitt the higgler failed to pay his usual visit, and there was conjecture in the Vine-Pits kitchen as to the reason of his absence.

From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.