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Word Meanings - HIGGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To hawk or peddle provisions. 2. 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.

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  • BOGGLE
    1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth
  • CHAFFERY
    Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
  • BARGAINER
    One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
  • HIGGLER
    One who higgles.
  • BOGGLER
    One who boggles.
  • CHAFFER
    One who chaffs.
  • STICKLEBACK
    Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling,
  • CHAFFERN
    A vessel for heating water. Johnson.
  • BARGAIN
    prob. from a supposed LL. barcaneum, fr. barca a boat which carries merchandise to the shore; hence, to traffic to and fro, to carry on 1. An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself
  • STICKLE
    freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf. G. stiften to found, to 1. To separate combatants by intervening. When he sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the
  • HAGGLE
    To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay
  • HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY
    In confusion; topsy-turvy. Johnson.
  • CHAFFERER
    One who chaffers; a bargainer.
  • HAGGLER
    1. One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining. 2. One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.
  • BARGAINOR
    One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.
  • HIGGLE
    Etym: 1. To hawk or peddle provisions. 2. 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.
  • BARGAINEE
    The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone.
  • STICKLER
    One who stickles. Specifically: -- One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. Sir P. Sidney. Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the
  • BANSTICKLE
    A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
  • BURNSTICKLE
    A stickleback .

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