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Look up: huckster

  1. huckster
    [n] - a person who writes radio or tv advertisements 2. [n] - a seller of shoddy goods
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Huckster
    archaic or obsolete terms > Occupations:Someone who sells second hand goods, or sells what he has bought wholesale for retail. A broker.
    Found on http://www.skyscript.co.uk/glossarytt.ht

  3. Huckster
    Huck'ster noun [ Middle English hukstere , hukster , OD. heukster , Dutch heuker ; akin to Dutch huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken , huken , German hocken , to squat, Icelandic h...ka ; -- the peddler being named from his stooping under the load on his back. Confer Hawk to offer for sale.] 1. A retailer of small arti ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/67

  4. Huckster
    Huck'ster intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Huckstered ; present participle & verbal noun Huckstering .] To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. Swift.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/67

  5. Huckster
    A `huckster` is a seller of small articles, usually of cheap or shoddy quality, or one engaged in haggling or making petty bargains, that is, a certain type of peddler or hawker. In Scotland, the term `huckster` referred to a person, usually a woman, who bought goods and resold them in tiny quantity to others who were too poor to buy in quantities available at market. The goods were of no worse quality, though tended to be in the poorer quality...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckster

  6. Huckster
    • (n.) A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. • (n.) A mean, trickish fellow. • (v. i.) To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. huckster
    1. a seller of shoddy goods
    2. a person who writes radio or tv advertisements

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