HUCKSTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does huckster mean? 

• HUCKSTER (noun)
  The noun HUCKSTER has 2 senses:

1. a seller of shoddy goods

2. a person who writes radio or tv advertisements

  Familiarity information: HUCKSTER used as a noun is rare.

• HUCKSTER (verb)
  The verb HUCKSTER has 2 senses:

1. sell or offer for sale from place to place

2. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

  Familiarity information: HUCKSTER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUCKSTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A seller of shoddy goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cheap-jack; huckster

Hypernyms ("huckster" is a kind of...):

marketer; seller; trafficker; vender; vendor (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)

Derivation:

huckster (wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.))

huckster (sell or offer for sale from place to place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who writes radio or tv advertisements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("huckster" is a kind of...):

adman; advertiser; advertizer (someone whose business is advertising)

• HUCKSTER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they huckster    ... he / she / it hucksters   
Past simple: huckstered   
Past participle: huckstered   
-ing form: huckstering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell or offer for sale from place to place

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

hawk; huckster; monger; peddle; pitch; vend

Hypernyms (to "huckster" is one way to...):

deal; sell; trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue huckster
Sam wants to huckster with Sue

Derivation:

huckster (a seller of shoddy goods)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

chaffer; haggle; higgle; huckster

Context example:

Let's not haggle over a few dollars

Hypernyms (to "huckster" is one way to...):

bargain; dicker (negotiate the terms of an exchange)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "huckster"):

bargain down; beat down (persuade the seller to accept a lower price)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

huckster (a seller of shoddy goods)

 Context examples 

Across his thighs was a wooden board, and scattered over it all manner of slips of wood and knobs of brick and stone, each laid separate from the other, as a huckster places his wares.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I asked for no more information about Mr. Wickfield, as she offered none, and we conversed on other subjects until we came to Canterbury, where, as it was market-day, my aunt had a great opportunity of insinuating the grey pony among carts, baskets, vegetables, and huckster's goods.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We shall go in to the prince anon; but in truth he hath much upon his hands, for what with Pedro, and the King of Majorca, and the King of Navarre, who is no two days of the same mind, and the Gascon barons who are all chaffering for terms like so many hucksters, he hath an uneasy part to play.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I got some breakfast on the Heath, and walked back to Doctors' Commons, along the watered roads and through a pleasant smell of summer flowers, growing in gardens and carried into town on hucksters' heads, intent on this first effort to meet our altered circumstances.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Take now your choice of these, my worthy gentlemen, and pay such a price as your consciences will suffer you to offer; for I am not a chapman nor a huckster, and I would never part with them, did I not know that I am very near to my reward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)