higgle

VERB
  1. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
    Let's not haggle over a few dollars
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How To Use higgle In A Sentence

  • Turpin Real Estate Ms. Higgins said the additions that were tacked on over the years by previous owners made the house 'a little higgledy-piggledy.' N.J. Colonial With Farm Roots
  • The higglers ' principal occupation was travelling from farm to farm buying provisions at farm gates and selling them in the urban markets for profit.
  • In the short run, buyers and sellers met to higgle on the marketplace, but basically the bargaining process revolved about a fixed quantity of goods—the diamonds that the diamond merchants brought along with them in their suitcases. The Worldly Philosophers
  • The two seconds met, and, with great unction, pledged “our honor to each other that we would endeavor to settle the matter amicably,” but persistently higgled over points till publicity and arrests seemed imminent. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • Things will go higgle-ty-piggle-ty, sure as the world," said Kat, balancing on the edge of the table, and fanning with the duster. Six Girls A Home Story
  • This once "higgledy-piggledy" historic home in the Township of Morris, N.J., was given a more coherent layout by the current owners. N.J. Colonial With Farm Roots
  • Books are often stacked in higgledy-piggledy piles on the floor.
  • It would never have done to have hesitated and higgled about seeing more volumes. A Publisher and His Friends
  • ‘But it’s really very useful, and not at all bad, considering that I bought it off a higgler for a pound, and Scatty and I made it go. Sweet Danger
  • Reims' stained glass gives an idea of the risks: reglazed in the sixteenth century, replaced higgledy-piggledy during releading in the eighteenth, wrecked by hail in the nineteenth and finished off by shellfire in the twentieth.
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