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Meanings of huckster in inglés

portugués
mercadejar

Sell or offer for sale from place to place.

mercadejar
portugués
barganhar
catalán
regatejar

Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

barganhar
catalán
quincallaire

A seller of shoddy goods.

quincallaire
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Examples for "cheap-jack"
Examples for "cheap-jack"
1
Its beat had led too often to the trickster's booth, to the cheap-jack's rostrum.
All Roads Lead to Calvary
2
The Midland, for Constance, was not a trading concern, but something between a cheap-jack and a circus.
The Old Wives' Tale
3
Anyhow, he did not talk like a cheap-jack at a stall; but rather like a teacher in an infant school.
The New Jerusalem
4
A set of fish-jobbers, and men with barrows, and cheap-jacks from up the country.
Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War
5
Here the glib politician crying his legislative panaceas, and here the peripatetic Cheap-Jack holding aloft his quack cures for human ills.
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Usage of huckster in inglés
1
This violent preliminary takes him aback; his little huckster brain fails him.
Hunger
2
And Thomas Burdett has no powers but ill-will and a huckster's promise.
The White Queen
3
So why is our inbox still peppered with messages from huckster automatons?
Wired
4
As he walked, he called aloud to every side, like a huckster.
The Poor Little Rich Girl
5
Dost thou not see that the huckster's son knows his own father?
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
6
How could you, a mere petty huckster, be expected to do so?
Halil the Pedlar: A Tale of Old Stambul
7
He was dressed in the dark robe of a Memphis huckster.
The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
8
The huckster-women of the town continue to visit us, bringing their small wares.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years ...
9
North and west of this line the huckster is almost unknown.
The Dollar Hen
10
Green flashed a thin smile at the political huckster sitting across the table.
Act of treason
11
Like the hollering car huckster, they're actually trying to bug you.
Wired
12
Johannes Cabal, necromancer and unwilling carny-huckster, watched the crowd and fretted.
Johannes cabal the necromancer
13
Inventions of this huckster with Batman's zeal and the Joker's grin.
The Irish Times
14
The peddling huckster's son said Dr. Floddin didn't believe in it.
David Lockwin—The People's Idol
15
Better a half-finished temple than a finished pigstye or huckster's shop.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
16
And this wretched huckster carries her deity about her,-herself-existentsoul?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 / A Maga...
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