A huckster is anyone who sells something or serves biased interests, using pushy or showy tactics. In historical terms, it meant any type of peddler or vendor, but over time it has assumed pejorative connotations.
1. : hawker, peddler. especially : one who sells or advertises something in an aggressive, dishonest, or annoying way. 2. : one who produces promotional material for commercial clients especially for radio or television.
a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker. a person who employs showy methods to effect a sale, win votes, etc.: the crass methods of political hucksters.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Huckster
huk'-ster: A retailer of small wares, provisions, or the like; a peddler. "A huckster shall not be acquitted of sin" (Sirach 26:29). Neither a merchant nor a huckster is without sin.
A huckster is anyone who sells something or serves biased interests, using pushy or showy tactics. In historical terms, it meant any type of peddler or vendor, but over time it has assumed pejorative connotations. Women huckstering from The Irish Sketch-Book, 1845.
If someone tries to sell you a bottle of Love Potion #9, call him a huckster. While a huckster is primarily a seller of cheap goods, like the people who sell imitation luxury handbags and watches on city sidewalks, you can also use the word to talk about extremely pushy salespeople.
Of those three words-"hawker," "peddler," or "huckster"-the one that has been around the longest in English is "huckster." It has been with us for over 800 years, and it derives from the Middle Dutch word "hokester," which in turn comes from the verb "hoeken," meaning "to peddle." "Peddler" (or "pedlar") was first ...
The hucksters's shop was a small shop near a chapel. In these huckster's shops there are small quantities of everything. Candles, tobacco, sweets, tea and sugar and a lot of other things but particularly the newspapers. It is open for a while on Sundays so that goods before they go home.
The earliest known use of the verb huckster is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for huckster is from 1593, in the writing of Gabriel Harvey, scholar and writer. It is also recorded as a noun from the Middle English period (1150—1500).
huckster (noun as in peddler) Strong matches. costermonger hawker salesperson seller. Weak matches. colporteur pitchperson street seller street vendor.
Becoming a huckster isn't easy. A person must first learn how to communicate with manitous. Assuming they don't drive him insane, he must then treat with the ornery spirits and learn how to engage them in a game of wits. The game takes place in the Hunting Grounds and might seem to take minutes, hours, or even days.
/ˈhʌkstər/ (old-fashioned) 1(disapproving) a person who uses aggressive or annoying methods to sell something. Want to learn more? Find out which words work together and produce more natural-sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
Crowley in the 1870 census, his profession was “huckster,” and his place of residence was Ward 7 in Washington, DC. My first question was, what in the world is a huckster? Which I subsequently learned is a person who sells small items, such as fruits and vegetables.
A hawker is a type of street vendor; "a person who travels from place-to-place selling goods." Synonyms include huckster, peddler, chapman or in Britain, costermonger. However, hawkers are distinguished from other types of street vendors in that they are mobile.
Merchants like the Celys shipped enormous consignments of wool from the Cotswolds to the Continent. The property of the Selwyns lay in the picturesque district of the Northern Cotswolds. Early in May I walked up from the valley to the extreme rim of the Cotswolds, just above our house.
To blather is to talk on and on without saying anything very important or wise. If you blather all afternoon, it might be a welcome distraction to your friend who's grieving the death of her cat.
/prɪg/ If you act like you're better than everyone else, they might start calling you a prig — a snobby and arrogant person. A prig might lecture his friends about their manners, or complain about having to eat at a diner instead of a fancier restaurant.
