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
This meant a marriage feast for Mary; nor would the higgler permit of the least delay in its preparation.
From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.
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
The higgler had fallen in love with Mary; and she, apparently without a single explicit word, had understood the nature of the emotion that stirred his breast.
From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.
