Definition for Huckster:

• huk'st[. e]r, n. a retailer of smallwares, a hawker or pedlar: a mean, trickish fellow:-- fem. HUCK'STRESS.-- v.i. to deal in small articles, to higgle meanly.-- n. HUCK'STERAGE, business of a huckster. [ With fem. suff. - ster, from Dut. heuker, a retailer, Old Dut. hucken, to stoop or bow; cf. Ice. húka, to sit on one's hams, and Eng. hawker.]

Synonyms for Huckster:

• n.

  •
  • fixer,
  • cheat,
  • liar,
  • hypocrite,
  • wheeler dealer,
  • CONMAN,
  • brown-nose,
  • crook,
  • fraud,
  • politician.
  •
  • mountebank.
  •chaffer (noun)
  • chaffer.
  •cheap-jack (noun)
  • cheap-jack.
  •hawk (noun)
  • hawk.
  •hawker (noun)
  • peddler,
  • salesman,
  • street vendor,
  • businessperson,
  • street seller,
  • Colporteur,
  • pitchperson,
  • costermongers,
  • costermonger.
  •higgle (noun)
  • higgle.
  •huckster (noun)
  • monger,
  • pitch.
  •peddler (noun)
  • salesperson.
  •person (noun)
  • huckster.
  •vendor (noun)
  • out criers,
  • out-criers,
  • out crier,
  • traveling salespersons,
  • traveling salespeople,
  • out-crier.

• v.

  •dicker (verb)
  • buys sell,
  • bought and sell,
  • bought sell,
  • buys and sell,
  • working out a deal,
  • works out a deal,
  • hammering out a deal,
  • buying and sell,
  • buy sell,
  • hammers out deal,
  • hammered out a deal,
  • wrought out a deal,
  • worked out a deal,
  • worked out deal,
  • hammers out a deal,
  • wrought out deal,
  • buying sell,
  • working out deal,
  • cut deal,
  • hammered out deal,
  • works out deal,
  • hammering out deal.
  •peddle (verb)
  • mongered.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • palter.
  •
  • negotiate.
  •cadge
  • panhandling,
  • Bummed,
  • Bumming.
  •dicker
  • Chaffered,
  • Huckstered,
  • work out deal,
  • traded,
  • hammer out deal,
  • chaffers,
  • work out a deal,
  • Huckstering,
  • haggle,
  • hammer out a deal,
  • Chaffering,
  • buy and sell.
  •hawker
  • hustler.
  •peddle
  • mongering,
  • hawking,
  • Hawked.

Antonyms for Huckster:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    consumer, user, end user, purchaser, buyer.

Huckster Sentence Examples:

• At a quarter after nine I turned away from the window through which I had been moodily regarding the donkey cart of a flower huckster in the street below.

• Nay, said Cicely, she - no, it was Tibbott the huckster - woman told me long ago that I was not what I seemed, and that I came from the north - I cannot understand!

Hyponym for Huckster:

• n.

  • person
    advertizer, adman, advertiser.