User:Jnestorius/huxtery

English

Noun

huxtery (countable and uncountable, plural huxteries)

1. variant spelling of huckstery

Adjective

1. wretched, base, miserable; contemptible, disreputable

Citations

1. Thomas Jones Howell (1803) Trial of John Killen and John Mac Cann, alias John Mac Kenna, for High Treason; before the Court holden under a Special Commission at Dublin, on Wednesday September the 7th : 43 George III. A. D. 1803 "Philip Lynch cross-examined by Mr. Attorney General." in Howell's State Trials Vol.28 No.661 col.1031

   What did you do then? —I set up in the huxtery business; and not knowing it, I failed.

   Then you failed as a pedlar? —Yes

2. Christian Isobel Johnstone (23 August 1845) Mrs. Mark Luke; or, West Country Exclusives Chapter III in Littell's Living Age, Vol.6 No.67 p.362

   ["]Do you think that I, or my father's bairn, would do a dirty thing, as if we were come o' huxtery folk?" This was meant for a hard hit.

3. Frances Power Cobbe (1864) Italics; Brief notes on politics, people, and places in Italy, in 1864 Chapter XIX "Nervi, with No Sights" p.490
   • It is quite a poor little town, not a picture in it, for aught I know, nor a church worth visiting — not a shop where a sheet of paper, or a pair of gloves, or any of the miscellaneous little huxtery — "lollypops, mouse-traps, and other sweetmeats," of the poorest English hamlet could be procured.
4. Christina Reid (1996) "Clowns" in Plays: 1 (2002) Methuen Drama p.331

   And he goes back to the oul family homestead. A huxtery oul farm on the borders of Fermanagh and Tyrone.

5. Marian Keyes (2008) This charming man‎ p.38

   Huxtery, all-purpose, seaside-town shop, selling Jackie Collins novels, souvenirs and ashtrays shaped like toilets, with writing, 'Rest Your Weary Ash'