What's the difference between chaffer and higgle?

Chaffer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who chaffs.
  • (n.) Bargaining; merchandise.
  • (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.
  • (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter.
  • (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.
  • (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words.

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Higgle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To hawk or peddle provisions.
  • (v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As for government, all of Smith's economic thinking assumed that his communities of self-interested individuals, doing their own thing in their own ways, were all living in civil societies with laws and governments that could provide security and enforce contracts, and would have cultures that made it possible for buyers and sellers to " higgle and bargain and persuade " as Smith puts it.