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huckster 音標拼音: [h'ʌkstɚ] n. 小商人,叫賣的小販,卑鄙者
vt. 販賣,叫賣,還價
vi. 討價還價 小商人,叫賣的小販,卑鄙者販賣,叫賣,還價討價還價 huckster n 1: a seller of shoddy goods [ synonym: { huckster}, { cheap- jack}] 2: a person who writes radio or tv advertisements v 1: sell or offer for sale from place to place [ synonym: { peddle}, { monger}, { huckster}, { hawk}, { vend}, { pitch}] 2: wrangle ( over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); " Let' s not haggle over a few dollars" [ synonym: { 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. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A mean, trickish fellow. -- Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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