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- noun Plural form of
higgler .
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Examples
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Street hawkers, called higglers, were selling wooden jewelry and other carvings, but also Jamaican coffee and cocoa.
Pop Goes the Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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Street hawkers, called higglers, were selling wooden jewelry and other carvings, but also Jamaican coffee and cocoa.
Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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I also bought this interesting fossil from one of the bowler hat 'higglers' as they would be called in Jamaica, and managed to get a photo with her, whilst she put on the most miserable face on possible ..
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These higglers may have been very honest fellows, in all but pecuniary questions, and possibly continued to be so in the bosom of their own families.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Georgetown Heights, past villas half-guessed by starlight among their gardens and fountains, and in by a market picturesque with a hundred torches flaring over the heads of mules and negroes and venders and higglers -- piles of game, crisp vegetables and scarlet berries.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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It turns lawyers into higglers with their clients.
An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood
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Strype describes this market as "a large place, with a commodious market-house in the midst filled with butchers 'shambles; besides the stalls in the market-place for country butchers, higglers and the like, being a market now grown to great account, and much resorted unto as being served with good provisions."
The Strand District The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868
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The small dealers, even the very carriers along the road, the higglers, and other persons who call at
Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867
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These higglers may have been very honest fellows, in all but pecuniary questions, and possibly continued to be so in the bosom of their own families.
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_ -- "A cant word, corrupted from _higgle_, which denotes any confused mass, as _higglers_ carry a huddle of provisions together"
vendingmachine commented on the word higglers
"Street hawkers, called higglers, were selling wooden jewelry and other carvings, but also Jamaican coffee and cocoa."
June 10, 2015