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

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 Kingston, Alfred

Fresh vegetables, poultry, eggs, butter, and milk, were brought by a higgler from the country, and raised by means of a basket or a can attached to the pulley.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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