higgler

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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 scouts tried to console him, but the loss of his donkey was a heavy blow to the old higgler.

From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by Finnemore, John

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

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