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higgle-haggle, v. [Reduplicated, combining higgle and haggle: cf. gibble-gabble, tittle-tattle, etc.] intr. To higgle or haggle with much alternation or ‘coming and going’.
1839–41S. Warren Ten Thousand a Year II. vi. 145 After some little higgle-haggling he bought it. 1885Lowe Bismarck I. ix. 633 This higgle-haggling was more than Bismarck could bear, and he lost his temper. |