higgle
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
- To hawk or peddle provisions.
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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 colliſions, they have vvorn dovvn their aſperities and ſharp angles, and not only become round and ſmooth, but vvill receive, ſome of them, a poliſh like a brilliant— […]
词源
Probably an alteration of haggle.
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