huckster

Speech parts

1. huckster - Noun

2. huckster - Verb

Meaning

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

A mean, trickish fellow.

To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hawk monger vend peddle chaffer pitch haggle higgle cheap-jack chapman barker banyan camelot hawker hawking
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Antonyms

agree client customer buyer target audience end consumer
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Hypernyms

advertiser dicker trade deal sell seller

Hyponyms

beat down bargain down

Derivatives

huckstered huckstering

Examples

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition. Learned Hand

God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants. Nick Cave

It is all as of old, the empty clangour, The NOTHING scrawled on a five-foot page, The huckster who, mocking holy anger, Painfully paints his face with rage. G. K. Chesterton

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me. Timothy Ferriss

When fools go to market the huckster gets money. Danish Proverb

A huckster who cannot pass off mouse-turd for pepper, has not learned his trade. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

huckson Huckstep Huckstepp hucksterage hucksterer hucksteress