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Higgle

//ˈhɪɡəl// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To hawk or peddle provisions. archaic
  2. 2
    wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) wordnet
  3. 3
    To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle. archaic

    "The genius of a people vvhere nothing but the monarchy is ſalique, having ceded this department, vvith ſundry others, totally to the vvomen—by a continual higgling vvith cuſtomers of all ranks and ſizes from morning to night, like ſo many rough pebbles ſhook long together in a bag, by amicable colliſions, they have vvorn dovvn their aſperities and ſharp angles, and not only become round and ſmooth, but vvill receive, ſome of them, a poliſh like a brilliant— […]"

Etymology

Probably an alteration of haggle.

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