Higgler

Quick meaning: Higgler is a noun meaning A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices.

Meaning

A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices.

More Meanings

1. (Jamaica) A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster.
2. (archaic) An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry.

Example Sentences

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

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 […]

Word Forms

• higglers

Synonyms for higgler

Depending on context, synonyms include wrangler, haggler.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include badger, hawker, dickerer, handseller, kiddier, hickster.

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