higgle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HIG'GLE, verb intransitive [Latin cocio.] 1. To carry provisions about and offer them for sale. 2. To chaffer; to be difficult in making a bargain. It argues an ignorant mind, where we have wronged to higgle and dodge in the amends.
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