Synonyms for huckster

Grammar : Noun

Spell : huhk-ster

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhʌk stər

Définition of huckster

Origin : c.1200, "petty merchant, peddler" (often contemptuous), from Middle Dutch hokester "peddler," from hoken "to peddle" (see hawk (v.1)) + agent suffix -ster (which was typically feminine in English, but not in Low German). Specific sense of "advertising salesman" is from 1946 novel by Frederick Wakeman. As a verb, from 1590s. Related: Huckstered; huckstering.

noun peddler

Example sentences :

To think of you selling in the market, just like a huckster!
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 » by Various

I was reduced to tell the Kelt to ask the huckster of whom he bought.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 » by Various

We all of us visit the huckster for the sake of the porridge.
Extract from : « What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales » by Hans Christian Andersen

There were huckster waggons with vegetables, and a buttermilk man.
Extract from : « A Little Girl of Long Ago » by Amanda Millie Douglas

He heard it in the huckster's cries, the noise of carts, the calling of children.
Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

If I mistake not, 'tis a huckster come to spread out his wares.
Extract from : « The Manor House School » by Angela Brazil

"And right glad I am you did come, nephew," replied the huckster woman.
Extract from : « Fashion and Famine » by Ann S. Stephens

His likeness, his name, his plays are pressed into every huckster's service.
Extract from : « From Gretna Green to Land's End » by Katharine Lee Bates

Every huckster needed four hands, and still he wouldn't have had enough.
Extract from : « Back Home » by Irvin S. Cobb

No one save Jacques the huckster lives there, why should he excite any attention?
Extract from : « Winged Wheels in France » by Michael Myers Shoemaker

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