huckster
Plural: hucksters
Noun
- a seller of shoddy goods
- a person who writes radio or tv advertisements
- 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; snake oil salesman
- Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
Verb
Verb Forms: huckstered, huckstering, hucksters
- To peddle or hawk goods, often aggressively.
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
- To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
- To sell or offer (goods) from place to place, to peddle.
- To promote or sell (goods) in an aggressive, showy manner.
Examples
- He tried to HUCKSTER his low-value tiles, hoping to trade them in for better ones.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English hukster, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, from Middle Low German höken (“to peddle”) or Middle Dutch hokester, itself from hoeken (“to peddle, bend, bear on the back”), all from Proto-Germanic *huk-, probably related to *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of English high). Compare hawkster.
Scrabble Score: 17
huckster: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhuckster: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
huckster: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary