Meaning of HUCKSTER
| Pronunciation: | | 'hukstur
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- [n] a seller of shoddy goods
- [n] a person who writes radio or tv advertisements
- [v] wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's not haggle over a few dollars"
- [v] sell or offer for sale from place to place
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| | Synonyms: | | chaffer, cheap-jack, haggle, hawk, higgle, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
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| | See Also: | | adman, advertiser, advertizer, bargain, bargain down, barrow-boy, barrow-man, beat down, costermonger, deal, dicker, marketer, sell, seller, trade, trafficker, vender, vendor | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Huck"ster\, n. [OE. hukstere, hukster, OD. heukster,
D. heuker; akin to D. huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken,
huken, G. hocken, to squat, Icel. h?ka; -- the peddler being
named from his stooping under the load on his back. Cf.
{Hawk} to offer for sale.]
1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like;
a peddler; a hawker. --Swift.
2. A mean, trickish fellow. --Bp. Hall.
\Huck"ster\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Huckstered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Huckstering}.]
To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. --Swift.
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| | Related Terms: | | arab, bargain, beat down, bid, bid for, cadger, chaffer, chapman, cheapen, cheapjack, cheap-jack, cheap-john, colporteur, coster, costermonger, dicker, dispense, drive a bargain, duffer, haggle, hawk, hawker, higgle, higgler, jew down, monger, negotiate, outbid, palter, peddle, peddler, sidewalk salesman, underbid, vend, vendor |
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