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Definition of Huckster
1. Verb. Sell or offer for sale from place to place. "Sam wants to huckster with Sue "
Generic synonyms: Deal, Sell, Trade
Derivative terms: Hawker, Hawking, Monger, Peddler, Peddler, Peddling, Pitch, Pitch, Vendable, Vender, Vendible, Vending, Vendition, Vendor
2. Noun. A seller of shoddy goods.
3. Verb. Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.). "Sam wants to huckster with Sue "; "Let's not haggle over a few dollars"
Specialized synonyms: Bargain Down, Beat Down
Generic synonyms: Bargain, Dicker
Derivative terms: Haggle, Haggler, Haggling
4. Noun. A person who writes radio or tv advertisements.
Definition of Huckster
1. n. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.
2. v. i. To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.
Definition of Huckster
1. Noun. A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall(,) or in the street ¹
2. Noun. Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner. ¹
3. Noun. One who deceptively sells fraudulent products. ¹
4. Noun. Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television. ¹
5. Verb. (intransitive) To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle. ¹
7. Verb. (transitive) To promote/sell goods in an aggressive/ showy manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Huckster
1. to peddle [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: peddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Huckster
Literary usage of Huckster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen (1907)
"The Goblin and the huckster THERE was once a real student who lived in an ...
There was also a real huckster who lived on the ground floor and owned the ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... a huckster. Also deception, humbug. I was not a little surprised, therefore,
to hear one of them remark, in the unmistakable language of a Cockney of ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"See further under] _oi^ HE. find also Dan. hiker, a chandler, huckster, rade, Autre,
.... huckster ..."
4. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"m. higgler, huckster, retailer, market-man; costard monger; II. or í>o'fmn, ...
wn to higgle, huckster. ..."
5. The Golden Word Book: A School Reader by Elias Hershey Sneath, George Hodges, Edward Lawrence Stevens (1913)
"THE GOBLIN AND THE huckster THERE was once a regular student who lived in a garret,
... And there was also a regular huckster, to whom the house belonged, ..."
6. Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells (1885)
"the Guelph Party, forbidding any huckster to sell his wares in that square under
pain of a certain fine. The place now naturally abounds in them. ..."
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