Someone who haggles or quibbles in making a bargain or coming to terms; a middleman; one who buys of the country-folk and sells in the city market.
"Twenty shillings more, twenty shillings less, is not the thing I stand upon. I'se no haggler, gadswookers!"
Sir John Vanbrugh, Aesop (1697).
Monday, June 29, 2009
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