| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb huckster.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (huckster) | 1. Sell or offer for sale from place to place.[Wordnet]. 2. Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.).[Wordnet]. 3. To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: huckstering, huckstered, hucksters, hucksterer, hucksterers, hucksteringly and hucksteredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HUCKSTERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Specialty Definition: huckster
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A retailer of small articles, of provisions, nuts, &c.. | 2: [Noun] A mean trickish fellow.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Occupations | Sells merchandise, such as fruit, vegetables, flowers, or ice cream, on streets or from door to door, usually using basket, pushcart, or truck to carry products. May attract attention by playing chimes or chanting song. May be designated according to product sold as Ice-Cream Vendor (retail trade); Vegetable Vendor (retail trade). (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | A huckster is a seller of small articles, usually of cheap or shoddy quality, or one engaged in haggling or making petty bargains. Synonyms include peddler and hawker. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street. (references) | 2: [Noun] Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner. (references) | 3: [Noun] Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television. (references) | 4: [Verb] (intransitive) To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain. (references) | 5: [Verb] (transitive) To promote/sell goods in an aggressive/ showy manner. (references) | 6: [Verb] (transitive) To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle. (references) |
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Topics by Level of Interest: huckster | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Hot Rod Huckster | 7 | Hot Rod Huckster | 7 | |
| Huckster | 6 | Huckster | 6 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
