higgler

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English

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Etymology

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From higgle +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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higgler (plural higglers)

  1. (archaic) An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter X, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, [], →OCLC, book III:
      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:
    • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 64:
      [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 [] .
    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 84:
      'I don't quite like my children going away from home,' said the higgler.
  2. A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices.
  3. (Jamaica) A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster.

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From English higgler.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ɪɡla/
  • Hyphenation: higg‧ler

Noun

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higgler (plural higgler dem, quantified higgler)

  1. higgler, street vendor
    Synonym: ICI
    Nuff higgler sell inna di market pon Saturday.
    Many vendors sell in the market on Saturday.
    • 2015, H. Earle Watson, The One Way Out (in English), →ISBN:
      “From Friday to Sunday, yuh can run it fi yuhself an' carry di higgler dem to Coronation Market. []
      From Friday to Sunday, you can use it to transport the vendors to Coronation Market. []

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