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higgle-haggling

higgle-haggling is the present participle and gerund of higgle-haggle.

Meaning of higgle-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

Questions about higgle-haggling

What is higgle-haggling the present participle and gerund of?
Higgle-haggling is the present participle and gerund of higgle-haggle.

Words near higgle-haggling in the dictionary

  1. Higgitt
  2. higgle
  3. higgle-haggle
  4. higgle-haggled
  5. higgle-haggles
  6. higgle-haggling
  7. higgled
  8. higgledy
  9. higgledy-piggledies
  10. higgledy-piggledy
  11. higgledypiggledy

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