Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
huckster .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
huckster .
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- noun Dated form of
huckster . - verb Dated form of
huckster .
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Examples
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There were lots of little 'huxter' shops that sold everything and anything.
Irish Blogs Magnumlady's Blog 2010
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Those people seem guided by logic and literal meanings of words, not huxter salesmen.
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Those people seem guided by logic and literal meanings of words, not huxter salesmen.
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I now find that a certain John Mitchell (whom I know) engaged with a huxter in Washington, D. C., by name Henry High, knows all the particulars.
Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After Henry Bascom Smith
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The old Quakeress is not a fashionable saint, for she never dreamed of this huxter business in spiritual affairs.
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But we have set a clamorous bell ringing, like that of a suburban huxter, for this is the
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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He pays the farmer or huxter the highest market prices for his goods, and places the same on the best markets in the largest cities in the country -- North and South.
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"Shall we be more noble to-morrow than to-day, or to-morrow can this huxter of maids, the Duke, be less noble than he is, every day that he soils knighthood?"
A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878
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Another campaign ad put out by this carnival huxter as a sideshow to his Looter in Cheif position working for the NWO system
Latest Articles 2010
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-- to live without the chandler, the butcher, the baker, the huxter, and the grocer!
Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819
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