higgle

Probably an alteration of haggle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪɡəl/

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

• haggle, wrangle, chaffer, huckster.

• higgle-haggle

• “higgle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.