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

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

Mrs. Dale," said the higgler, solemnly, "I married my first wife for money, and I've been punished for my mistake.

From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.

That was because he knew the buyer was a higgler, and would have left him at once had he refused to come down in his price.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various