huckster

huckster
    n 1: a seller of shoddy goods [syn: {huckster}, {cheap-jack}]
    2: a person who writes radio or tv advertisements
    v 1: sell or offer for sale from place to place [syn: {peddle},
         {monger}, {huckster}, {hawk}, {vend}, {pitch}]
    2: wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's
       not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: {haggle}, {higgle},
       {chaffer}, {huckster}]
    

Huckster \Huck"ster\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Huckstered}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Huckstering}.]
   To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. --Swift.
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Huckster \Huck"ster\, n. [OE. hukstere, hukster, OD. heukster,
   D. heuker; akin to D. huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken,
   huken, G. hocken, to squat, Icel. h?ka; -- the peddler being
   named from his stooping under the load on his back. Cf.
   {Hawk} to offer for sale.]
   1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like;
      a peddler; a hawker. --Swift.
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   2. A mean, trickish fellow. --Bp. Hall.
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35 Moby Thesaurus words for "huckster":
      arab, bargain, beat down, bid, bid for, cadger, chaffer, chapman,
      cheap-jack, cheap-john, cheapen, cheapjack, colporteur, coster,
      costermonger, dicker, dispense, drive a bargain, duffer, haggle,
      hawk, hawker, higgle, higgler, jew down, monger, negotiate, outbid,
      palter, peddle, peddler, sidewalk salesman, underbid, vend,
      vendor