different between barter vs higgle

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old French barater.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??(?)t?(?)/
• (US) enPR: bär?t?r, IPA^(key): /?b??t?/, [?b????]
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)

Noun

barter (usually uncountable, plural barters)

1. An exchange of goods or services without the use of money.

2. The goods or services used in such an exchange.

Synonyms

• quid pro quo
• swap
• swop
• trade

See also

• payment in kind

Translations

Verb

barter (third-person singular simple present barters, present participle bartering, simple past and past participle bartered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To exchange goods or services without involving money.

Synonyms

• swap
• swop
• trade

Translations

Anagrams

• Barret, Traber, barret

Yagara

Verb

barter

1. bite

References

• Eipper, Christopher, STATEMENT OF THE ORIGIN, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS, OF THE GERMAN MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES AT MORETON BAY, CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1841.

English

Etymology

Probably an alteration of haggle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h???l/

Verb

higgle (third-person singular simple present higgles, present participle higgling, simple past and past participle higgled)

1. (archaic) To hawk or peddle provisions.
2. (archaic) To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle.
   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

     to truck and higgle for a private good

Synonyms

• haggle, wrangle, chaffer, huckster.

References

• higgle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.