▪ I. huckstering, vbl. n.
(ˈhʌkstərɪŋ)
[f. huckster v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb huckster; petty trafficking; sordid dealing; haggling.
| 1647 Trapp Comm. Matt. xxi. 13 Base huckstering of holy things. 1797 Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 335 The spirit of huckstering and barter. 1858 Froude Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 89 From the wholesale purchases of the corndealer to the huckstering of the wandering pedlar. 1883 Manch. Exam. 27 Nov. 5/2 The process of diplomatic huckstering by correspondence. |
▪ II. ˈhuckstering, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That hucksters; trafficking, hawking, haggling.
| 1592 G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 175 A broking and huckstering penne. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Northumbld. ii. 308 Huckstering Husbandmen, who properly may be termed Knaves in grain. 1808 Cobbett Pol. Reg. XIII. vi. 202 We know you to be a huckstering nation. 1858 Hughes Scouring White Horse 106 Half way up..I found an old huckstering woman and a boy in great trouble. |