hokester
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huck´ster|er — huck|ster «HUHK stuhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. a peddler; hawker. 2. a person who sells small articles. 3. Figurative. a person willing to profit in a small, mean way. 4. Slang. a person in the advertising business. –v.i., v.t. to peddle or sell,… … Useful english dictionary
huck|ster — «HUHK stuhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. a peddler; hawker. 2. a person who sells small articles. 3. Figurative. a person willing to profit in a small, mean way. 4. Slang. a person in the advertising business. –v.i., v.t. to peddle or sell, especially in … Useful english dictionary
huckster — I. noun Etymology: Middle English hukster, from Middle Dutch hokester, from hoeken to peddle Date: 13th century 1. hawker, peddler 2. one who produces promotional material for commercial clients especially for radio or television • hucksterism… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Huckster — A Huckster is also a character class in the role playing game Deadlands. 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… … Wikipedia
huckster — hucksterism, n. hucksterish, adj. /huk steuhr/, n. 1. a retailer of small articles, esp. a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker. 2. a person who employs showy methods to effect a sale, win votes, etc.: the crass methods of political hucksters … Universalium
huckster — huck|ster [ˈhʌkstə US ər] n [Date: 1100 1200; : Middle Dutch; Origin: hokester, from hoeken to go around selling things ] AmE someone who tries to sell things in a way that is too forceful and not honest used to show disapproval >hucksterism n … Dictionary of contemporary English
huckster — [12] The Low German dialects of northern Germany appear to have had in prehistoric times a root *huk which denoted ‘sell’. It has been suggested that this was the source of English hawker ‘peddler’, and with the alternative agent suffix ster… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
huckster — (n.) c.1200, petty merchant, peddler (often contemptuous), from M.Du. hokester peddler, from hoken to peddle (see HAWK (Cf. hawk) (v.1)) + agent suffix ster (which was typically feminine in English, but not in Low German). Specific sense of… … Etymology dictionary
huckster — sb. [hokester]. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 176. Dut. hucker … Oldest English Words
huckster — /ˈhʌkstə / (say hukstuh) noun Also, hucksterer. 1. a retailer of small articles; a hawker: *The ill sewered, dray made thoroughfares were noisy with swaggering sailors … hucksters, jugglers, street dancers and gaudy prostitutes. –mary durack,… …
