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higgle-haggle

higgle-haggle verb: to haggle.

Verb

higgle-haggle (third-person singular simple present higgle-haggles, present participle higgle-haggling, simple past and past participle higgle-haggled)

  1. (dated) To haggle.
    • […] and though his offer was "low, much too low, still it was he who had arranged the invitation to Sir Brooks'; and besides, Droigel was under obligations to him; and no one could say, or should say, Droigel was ungrateful, or higgle-haggled like a huckster. No paper, it was true, had been signed...1873, J. H. Riddell, Home, Sweet Home, volume 3, page 44

Forms of higgle-haggle

third-person singular presenthiggle-haggles
present participlehiggle-haggling
past participlehiggle-haggled
pasthiggle-haggled

Questions about higgle-haggle

What does higgle-haggle mean?
Higgle-haggle means to haggle.
What part of speech is higgle-haggle?
Higgle-haggle is a verb.
What is the past tense of higgle-haggle?
The past tense of higgle-haggle is higgle-haggled.

Words near higgle-haggle in the dictionary

  1. higginsite
  2. Higginsites
  3. Higginson
  4. Higgitt
  5. higgle
  6. higgle-haggle
  7. higgle-haggled
  8. higgle-haggles
  9. higgle-haggling
  10. higgled
  11. higgledy

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