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Huckster   /hˈəkstər/   Listen
Huckster

noun
1.
A seller of shoddy goods.  Synonym: cheap-jack.
2.
A person who writes radio or tv advertisements.
verb
(past & past part. huckstered; pres. part. huckstering)
1.
Sell or offer for sale from place to place.  Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend.
2.
Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.).  Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle.





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"Huckster" Quotes from Famous Books



... am making you an ordinary proposal—or that I am going to repeat to you the things I said to you—like a fool—in Cross Wood. Then I offered you a bargain—and I see now that you despised me as a huckster! You were to help my hobby; I was to help yours. That was all I could find to say. I didn't know how to tell you that all the happiness of my life depended on your staying at Mannering. I was unwilling to acknowledge ...
— Elizabeth's Campaign • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Grand and Greene avenues we thought it well to ask our way. A lady was standing on the corner, lost in pleasant drowse. April sunshine shimmered all about: trees were bustling into leaf, a wagonload of bananas stood by the curb and the huckster sang a gay, persuasive madrigal. We approached the lady, and Titania spoke gently: "Can you tell me——" The lady screamed, and leaped round in horror, her face stricken with fearful panic. She gasped and tottered. ...
— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley
... dear; you write the note. You know Mrs. Creamer every bit as well as I," protested Mrs. Nailor, "and I have already asked for at least a dozen. There are Mrs. Wyndham and Lady Stobbs, who were here last winter; and that charming Lord Huckster, who was at Newport last summer; and I don't know how many more—so you will have to get the invitation for ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... home, when, as they were passing a slippery ledge of rock, the Ass fell into the stream below, and the Salt being melted, the Ass was relieved of his burden, and having gained the bank with ease, pursued his journey onward, light in body and in spirit. The Huckster soon afterwards set off for the sea-shore for some more Salt, and loaded the Ass, if possible, yet more heavily than before. On their return, as they crossed the stream into which he had formerly ...
— Aesop's Fables - A New Revised Version From Original Sources • Aesop
... not follow that one is a bookman because he has many books, for he may be a book huckster or his books may be those without which a gentleman's library is not complete. And in the present imperfect arrangement of life one may be a bookman and yet have very few books, since he has not the ...
— Books and Bookmen • Ian Maclaren


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