Meaning of higgler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry.
   archaic
2. A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices.
3. A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster.
   Jamaica

Examples

“He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers:”

“Barter’d for game from chace or warren won, / Yon cask holds moonlight, run when moon was none; / And late-snatch’d spoils lie stow’d in hutch apart, / To wait the associate higgler’s evening cart.”

“[E]very poulterer in the neighbourhood had repeatedly refused her custom […] so that her only means of procuring poultry was of the higglers: their fowls, she found out, were either so ill fed, or of such an enormous age, that there was no gravy to follow the knife […]”

“'I don't quite like my children going away from home,' said the higgler.”

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