higgler
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 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
