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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 848 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUCKSTER , a dealer or retailer of goods in a small way. The word, in various forms, is See also:

common to many See also:Teutonic See also:languages. In See also:Early See also:English it is found as howkester, Wester, huxter; in early See also:modern Dutch as heuker, and See also:Medieval See also:Low See also:German as (taker; but the ultimate origin is unknown. Huckster apparently belongs to that See also:series of words formed from a verb,—as brew, See also:brewer; but the noun " huckster " is found in use before the verb to huck. See also:Hawker and pedlar are nearly synonymous in meaning, but " huckster " may include a See also:person in a small way of See also:trade in a settled habitation, while a hawker or pedlar invariably travels from See also:place to place offering his wares. In a contemptuous sense, huckster is used of any one who barters, or makes gain or profit in underhand or mean ways, or who over-reaches another, to get See also:advantage for himself.

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