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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Higgled

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Higgling

[Cf.

, or

To hawk or peddle provisions.

To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.

A person accustomed to

higgle

about taps.

Jeffry.

To truck and

higgle

for a private good.

Emerson.

Verb.

[L. cocio.]

To carry provisions about and offer them for sale.

To chaffer; to be difficult in making a bargain.

It argues an ignorant mind, where we have wronged to higgle and dodge in the amends.