Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

higgler

/ˈhɪɡlə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hig-gler
IPA: /ˈhɪɡlə/

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry.

Archaic

noun

A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices.

noun

A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster.

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From higgle + -er.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈhɪɡlə/

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

higglers (plural)

Synonyms

wrangler haggler

Questions

How do you pronounce higgler?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhɪɡlə/.
What does higgler mean?: An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry.
Where does higgler come from?: From higgle + -er.

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