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
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 John Finnemore
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 W. B. Maxwell
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 John Galt
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