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higgles

higgles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of higgle.

Meaning of higgle

Verb

higgle (third-person singular simple present higgles, present participle higgling, simple past and past participle higgled)

  1. (archaic) To hawk or peddle provisions.
  2. (archaic) To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle.
    • The genius of a people vvhere nothing but the monarchy is ſalique, having ceded this department, vvith ſundry others, totally to the vvomen—by a continual higgling vvith cuſtomers of all ranks and ſizes from morning to night, like ſo many rough pebbles ſhook long together in a bag, by amicable...1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], “The Husband. Paris.”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, pages 171–172

Questions about higgles

What is higgles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Higgles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of higgle.

Words near higgles in the dictionary

  1. higgledy-piggledy
  2. higgledypiggledy
  3. higgler
  4. higglers
  5. higglery
  6. higgles
  7. higgling
  8. higglings
  9. Higgon
  10. Higgs
  11. Higgs bison

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Adapted from Wiktionary: higgles (page history and authors); higgle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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