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
Thus, as was usual, the higgler went backward and forward between the door and his cart; and Mavis, with the baby on her arm, at intervals inspected various commodities.
From The Devil's Garden by W. B. Maxwell
That was because he knew the buyer was a higgler, and would have left him at once had he refused to come down in his price.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
Mrs. Dale," said the higgler, solemnly, "I married my first wife for money, and I've been punished for my mistake.
From The Devil's Garden by W. B. Maxwell
