higgler
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edithiggler (plural higglers)
- (archaic) An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter X, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III:
- 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, published 1986, page 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 […] .
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 84:
- 'I don't quite like my children going away from home,' said the higgler.
- A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices.
- (Jamaica) A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster.
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editperson who trades in dairy, poultry, and small game animals
person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices
Jamaican Creole
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edithiggler (plural higgler dem, quantified higgler)
- higgler, street vendor
- Synonym: ICI
- Nuff higgler sell inna di market pon Saturday.
- Many vendors sell in the market on Saturday.
- 2015, H. Earle Watson, The One Way Out (in English), →ISBN:
- “From Friday to Sunday, yuh can run it fi yuhself an' carry di higgler dem to Coronation Market. […] ”
- From Friday to Sunday, you can use it to transport the vendors to Coronation Market. […]
Further reading
edit- Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 291
- higgler – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary
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