higglerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈhɪɡlə/

名詞

higgler (plural higglers)

1. (archaic) An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry.

   Synonym: wrangler

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter X, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (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:

   • 1809, [Walter Scott], “Fragments, which Originally Appeared in the Edinburgh Annual Register for 1809. The Poacher.”, in The Bridal of Triermain, or The Vale of St John. In Three Cantos, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner;  […], published 1813, →OCLC, pages 225–226:

     Barter’d for game from chace or warren won, / Yon cask holds moonlight, run when moon was none; / And late-snatch’d spoils lie stow’d in hutch apart, / To wait the associate higgler’s evening cart.

   • 1828, J[ohn] T[homas] 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: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:

     'I don't quite like my children going away from home,' said the higgler.

2. A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices.

   Synonyms: haggler, wrangler

3. (Jamaica) A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster.