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单词 higgling
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higglingn.

Etymology: < higgle v. + -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhiggling.
1. The action of higgle v.; close bargaining, chaffering; stickling as to terms.
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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).
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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.

Etymology: formed as higgling n. +-ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhiggling.
That higgles; cavilling, wrangling.
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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).
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