hucksteringn.
/ˈhʌkstərɪŋ/ The action of huckster v.; petty trafficking; sordid dealing; haggling.
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society > trade and finance > bargaining > [noun]
koffry1488
hucking1551
coping1595
haggling1632
hucksterage1641
huckstering1647
huckstery1662
bargaining1669
higgling1700
chaffering1794
badgering1800
dickering1802
tig-tagging1825
haggle1829
chaffer1851
bargain-driving1902
wheeling and dealing1969
society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > sordid or petty trading
huckstery1362
huckery1377
cauponation1531
huckstering1647
niggling1840
hucksterism1951
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xxi. 13) Base huckstering of holy things.
1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 335 The spirit of huckstering and barter.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xiii. 89 From the wholesale purchases of the corndealer to the huckstering of the wandering pedlar.
1883 Manch. Examiner 27 Nov. 5/2 The process of diplomatic huckstering by correspondence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
hucksteringadj.
That hucksters; trafficking, hawking, haggling.
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society > trade and finance > bargaining > [adjective]
hucking1551
huckstering1593
higgling1678
brokering1687
chaffering1870
society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [adjective] > sordid or petty trading
huckstering1593
swag1829
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 175 A broking, and huckstering penne.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Northumb. 308 Huckstering Husbandmen..who properly may be termed Knaves in grain.
1808 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 vi. 202 We know you to be a huckstering nation.
1858 T. Hughes Scouring of White Horse 106 Half way up..I found an old huckstering woman and a boy in great trouble.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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