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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.





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"Huckster" Quotes from Famous Books



... with its brazen round His body fenced, he bore our city's shame, The rav'ning Sphynx, in burnished effigy Empaled, and grasping in her felon claws The limbs of a Cadmean citizen; Which on the bearer drew a shower of darts. Battle to huckster is not his intent, Nor to have marched so far and marched in vain. His name Parthenopaeus, Arcady His home, Argos his nurse, whom to requite He threatens that from which ...
— Specimens of Greek Tragedy - Aeschylus and Sophocles • Goldwin Smith
... on the feet, its effect is vividly picturesque. The poorer women, as elsewhere on the Continent, become hard-featured and muscular with age; saving a few beggars, they all seem to be busy,—carrying burdens, washing linen, watching their huckster-stalls or the dark little shops under the arcades. Here, however, the men themselves are not idle. One seldomer sees in southern France a sight frequent in Italy and many other parts of Europe,—that of a woman toilsomely dragging ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix


Words linked to "Huckster" :   trafficker, advertiser, seller, vender, advertizer, trade, chaffer, beat down, peddle, deal, dicker, bargain, vendor, marketer, bargain down, sell, adman


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