huckster
noun
a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
huckstered
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past participleof huckster.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof huckster.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
hucksternouna retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
Example Sentences
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These loaves, which were huckstered along the lines by venders from Richmond, it must be understood, were not full-size, but a compromise between a loaf and a roll.
From The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson by Edward A. Moore
Now was the time to unlock the sealed fountain of Royal bounty, which had been infamously monopolised and huckstered, and to let it flow at large upon the whole people.
From Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. by Henry Morley
She would have huckstered around the neighborhood, and made a little income while it lasted; but now she had no heart for it.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various
What wilt thou pay, thou huckstered That I let thee live another year?
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris
