higgle-haggle, v.
[Reduplicated, combining higgle and haggle: cf. gibble-gabble, tittle-tattle, etc.]
intr. To higgle or haggle with much alternation or ‘coming and going’.
| 1839–41 S. Warren Ten Thousand a Year II. vi. 145 After some little higgle-haggling he bought it. 1885 Lowe Bismarck I. ix. 633 This higgle-haggling was more than Bismarck could bear, and he lost his temper. |