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

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

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

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