Word Meanings - HUCKSTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

akin to D. huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken, huken, G. hocken, to squat, Icel. h; -- the peddler being named from his stooping under 1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift. 2. A mean, trickish

Additional info about word: HUCKSTER

akin to D. huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken, huken, G. hocken, to squat, Icel. h; -- the peddler being named from his stooping under 1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift. 2. A mean, trickish fellow. Bp. Hall.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HUCKSTER)

• Pedler
• Huckster
• hawker
• shopman
• trader

Related words: (words related to HUCKSTER)

• HUCKSTERER
  A huckster. Gladstone. Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.
• SHOPMAN
  1. A shopkeeper; a retailer. Dryden. 2. One who serves in a shop; a salesman. 3. One who works in a shop or a factory.
• TRADER
  1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader. 2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
• HUCKSTER
  akin to D. huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken, huken, G. hocken, to squat, Icel. h; -- the peddler being named from his stooping under 1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift. 2. A mean, trickish
• HAWKER
  One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
• HUCKSTERAGE
  The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes. Milton.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• JAYHAWKER
  A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla. Note:
• PEDLAR; PEDLER
  See PEDDLER