HUCKSTER

huckster, cheap-jack

(noun) a seller of shoddy goods

huckster

(noun) a person who writes radio or tv advertisements

haggle, higgle, chaffer, huckster

(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); “Let’s not haggle over a few dollars”

peddle, monger, huckster, hawk, vend, pitch

(verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

huckster (plural hucksters)

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

Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.

One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.

Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.

A mean, deceptive person.

Verb

huckster (third-person singular simple present hucksters, present participle huckstering, simple past and past participle huckstered)

(intransitive) To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.

(transitive) To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.

(transitive) To promote or sell goods in an aggressive, showy manner.

Anagrams

• Kutchers

Source: Wiktionary

Huck"ster, n. Etym: [OE. hukstere, hukster, OD. heukster, D. heuker; akin to D. huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken, huken, G. hocken, to squat, Icel. h; -- the peddler being named from his stooping under the load on his back. Cf. Hawk to offer for sale.]

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

2. A mean, trickish fellow. Bp. Hall.

Huck"ster, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Huckstered; p. pr. & vb. n. Huckstering.]

Definition: To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. Swift.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition