different between haggler vs higgler

English

Etymology

haggle +? -er

Noun

haggler (plural hagglers)

1. A person who haggles.
2. (formerly) A person who buys vegetables and other produce from farms and then sells them on in a different location; a person who transports farm goods.

English

Etymology

higgle +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??l?/

Noun

higgler (plural higglers)

1. (archaic) An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Book III ch x:

     He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers:

   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 64:

     [E]very poulterer in the neighbourhood had repeatedly refused her custom […] so that her only means of procuring poultry was of the higglers: their fowls, she found out, were either so ill fed, or of such an enormous age, that there was no gravy to follow the knife […] .
2. A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices.
3. (Jamaican) A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster.

Synonyms

• (trader in dairy and poultry): wrangler
• (person who haggles): haggler, wrangler

Translations

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• higgla

Etymology

From English higgler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?(h)??la/
• Hyphenation: higg?ler

Noun

higgler (plural: higgler dem, quantified: higgler)

1. higgler, street vendor

   Synonym: ICI

Further reading

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 291
• higgler – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary