huckster
To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargainTo haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
» My great-great-grandfather was a huckster.
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3 senses(intransitive)To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
(transitive)To sell or offer (goods) from place to place, to peddle.
sell or offer for sale from place to place
(transitive)To promote or sell (goods) in an aggressive, showy manner.
Examples
3 sentencesMy great-great-grandfather was a huckster.
Another huckster trying to sell snake oil again.
Hucksters are incorrigible.
Origin
From Middle English hukster, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, from Middle Low GermaFrom Middle English hukster, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, from Middle Low German höken (“to peddle”) or Middle Dutch hokester, itself from hoeken (“to peddle, bend, bear on the back”), all from Proto-Germanic *huk-, probably related to *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of English high). Compare hawkster.
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Forms
hucksters, huckstering, huckstered, huckstered| Base form | huckster · to huckster |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | hucksters |
| Present participle | huckstering |
| Past simple | huckstered |
| Past participle | huckstered |
irregular
Synonyms
8 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.