huckster
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English hukster, from Middle Dutch hokester, itself from hoeken (“to peddle”); compare hawkster.
[edit] Noun
huckster (plural hucksters)
- A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street
- Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
- One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.
- Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
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[edit] Verb
huckster (third-person singular simple present hucksters, present participle huckstering, simple past and past participle huckstered)
- (intransitive) To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
- (transitive) To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
- (transitive) To promote/sell goods in an aggressive/ showy manner.
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[edit] References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
