huckster
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (GA) IPA: /ˈhʌkstɚ/
huckster (plural hucksters)
- A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall
or in the street. - Somebody who sell#Verb|sells things in an aggressive#Adjective|aggressive or showy#Adjective|showy manner.
- One who deceptively#Adverb|deceptively sells fraudulent#Adjective|fraudulent product#Noun|products.
- Somebody who writes advertisement#Noun|advertisements for radio or television.
- A mean#Adjective|mean, deceptive#Adjective|deceptive person.
- Instead of turning to me and keeping to the works of charity and justice, he is a mere heathen huckster.
- French: colporteur, bonimenteur
- Russian: торга́ш
- French: bonimenteur
- Russian: бары́га
huckster (hucksters, present participle huckstering; 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.
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