different between hickster vs huckster

English

Etymology

Blend of hick +? hipster

Noun

hickster (plural hicksters)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A hick who attempts to be hip (that is, to be a hipster).
   • 1960, William Garland Rogers, Mildred Weston, Carnival crossroads: the story of Times Square:

     Hawk-eyed bus-tour agents mounting watch at the intersections, flaunting printed signs tucked in the bands of their visored caps to advertise their business, claim they can spot the hickster nine times out of ten.

Anagrams

• Hetricks, chirkest, kitscher, skitcher

English

Alternative forms

• huxter (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English hukster, from Middle Dutch hokester, itself from hoeken (“to peddle”); compare hawkster.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?kst?/

Noun

huckster (plural hucksters)

1. A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants

     drive those china hucksters from the doors

2. Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
3. One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.
4. Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
5. A mean, deceptive person.

Translations

See also

• pitchman
• spruiker

Further reading

• Huckster in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

huckster (third-person singular simple present hucksters, present participle huckstering, simple past and past participle huckstered)

1. (intransitive) To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
2. (transitive) To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
3. (transitive) To promote or sell goods in an aggressive, showy manner.

Derived terms

• hucksterism

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• Kutchers