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

But the higgler went on; and another cart soon appeared, in which she had the pleasure to see a woman, driven by a boy.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

Being disappointed in his hopes of profit, he shuffled out of the concern as meanly as any higgler could have done who had found himself in a profitless business with a disreputable partner. 

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

The higgler had fallen in love with Mary; and she, apparently without a single explicit word, had understood the nature of the emotion that stirred his breast.

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