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HIGGLE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they higgle
... he / she / it higgles
Past simple: higgled
-ing form: higgling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
Example:
Let's not haggle over a few dollars
Synonyms:
chaffer; haggle; higgle; huckster
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "higgle" is one way to...):
bargain; dicker (negotiate the terms of an exchange)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "higgle"):
bargain down; beat down (persuade the seller to accept a lower price)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence examples:
Sam and Sue higgle
Sam wants to higgle with Sue
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