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▪ I. ˈhiggling, vbl. n.
[f. higgle v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. higgle; close bargaining, chaffering; stickling as to terms.
1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. Ser. & Com. 78 There is much Higling and Wrangling for t'other Ten Pound. 1776Adam Smith W. N. i. v. (1869) I. 32 It is adjusted by the higgling and bargaining of the market. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. vi. 329 Saguntum was perishing while the higgling went on at Rome.
2. The occupation of a higgler (senses 2, 2 b).
1790J. B. Moreton Mann. W. Ind. 85 That sort of traffic called higling. 1832Boston Herald 22 May 3/3 [One] who keeps what is called a higgling team. 1882Athenæum 26 Aug. 271/2 Students of peculiar manners..will be glad to obtain the capital paper on Sussex higgling.
▪ II. ˈhiggling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. +-ing2.]
That higgles; cavilling, wrangling.
1678Otway Friendship in F. Epil. 21 For shame leave off this higling way of Wit, Railing abroad, and roaring in the Pit. 1691Shadwell Scowrers iv. i, This morning I beat twenty higling-women. 1815Sporting Mag. XLV. 225 The higgling disposition of the French. 1830in Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 308 A sort of higgling merchant. |