higgler
Example Sentences
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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
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
The higgler distinctly preened himself, and smiled archly.
From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.
Eventually their time came, when they broke into the house of a man named Tom Thurley, a higgler, living near the mill stream.
From Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King by Kingston, Alfred
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.
