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
"Well, have you made up your mind, old higgler?" said Asie, clapping him on the shoulder.
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honoré de Balzac
Thus, as was usual, the higgler went backward and forward between the door and his cart; and Mavis, with the baby on her arm, at intervals inspected various commodities.
From The Devil's Garden by W. B. Maxwell
Eventually their time came, when they broke into the house of a man named Tom Thurley, a higgler, living near the mill stream.
From Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King by Alfred Kingston
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