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Huckster

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One who sells wares or provisions in the street; a peddler or hawker.

n. One who uses aggressive, showy, and sometimes devious methods to promote or sell a product.

n. Informal One who writes advertising copy, especially for radio or television.

v. To sell; peddle.

v. To promote or attempt to sell (a commercial product, for example) in an overaggressive or showy manner.

v. To haggle over; deal in.

verb-intransitive. To engage in haggling.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street

n. Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.

n. One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.

n. Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.

v. To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.

v. To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.

v. To promote/sell goods in an aggressive/ showy manner.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.

n. A mean, trickish fellow.

verb-intransitive. To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A retailer of small articles; a hawker; a peddler; now, especially, a small dealer in agricultural produce.

n. A wholesale fish-dealer; one who buys fresh fish for shipment to the retail trade.

To deal in small articles or in petty bargains; hence, to higgle; contend in a small or mean way about monetary transactions.

To expose for sale; make a matter of bargain.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. sell or offer for sale from place to place

n. a person who writes radio or tv advertisements

v. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

n. a seller of shoddy goods

Word Usage

"So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger."

Verb Form

huckstered huckstering hucksters

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

deal sell trade advertizer advertiser

Cross Reference

pitchman spruiker

Form

huckstered huckstering hucksterism

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

peddler hawker

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

chapman hawker concocter greengrocer distributer