单词 | higgling |
释义 | higglingn. 1. The action of higgle v.; close bargaining, chaffering; stickling as to terms. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > bargaining > [noun] koffry1488 hucking1551 coping1595 haggling1632 hucksterage1641 huckstering1647 huckstery1662 bargaining1669 higgling1700 chaffering1794 badgering1800 dickering1802 tig-tagging1825 haggle1829 chaffer1851 bargain-driving1902 wheeling and dealing1969 the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > terms of agreement > negotiating or making terms bargain1330 treatyc1405 overture1427 chafferingc1449 treatingc1450 entreat1485 patising1530 practice1540 articulating1562 capitulation1569 entreatance1574 tractation1600 interdealing1611 negotiation1614 tractate1618 haggling1632 traffickinga1649 bargaining1669 conditioning1680 transacting1686 higgling1700 stipulation1792 treatment1828 haggle1829 coming to terms1843 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical viii. 78 There is much Higling and Wrangling for t'other Ten Pound. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. v. 37 It is adjusted..by the higgling and bargaining of the market. View more context for this quotation 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. vi. 329 Saguntum was perishing while the higgling went on at Rome. 2. The occupation of a higgler n. (sense 2). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > to be sold at a market higglery1738 higgling1790 marketing1818 1790 J. B. Moreton Manners & Customs West India Islands 85 That sort of traffic called higling. 1832 Boston Herald 22 May 3/3 [One] who keeps what is called a higgling team. 1882 Athenæum 26 Aug. 271/2 Students of peculiar manners..will be glad to obtain the capital paper on Sussex higgling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). higglingadj. That higgles; cavilling, wrangling. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > bargaining > [adjective] hucking1551 huckstering1593 higgling1678 brokering1687 chaffering1870 the mind > language > speech > agreement > [adjective] > relating to negotiation > negotiating in terms1567 on (also upon) terms1567 haggling1589 higgling1678 in —— terms1851 chaffering1856 1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion Epil. sig. K3 For shame leave off this higling way of Wit, Railing abroad, and roaring in the Pit. 1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers iv. i. 32 This morning I beat 20 Higling women. 1815 Sporting Mag. 45 225 The higgling disposition of the French. 1830 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Weekly Polit. Reg. 17 Apr. 483 A sort of higgling merchant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1700adj.1678 |
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