huckster

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HUCK'STER, noun 1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, nuts, etc. 2. A mean trickish fellow. HUCK'STER, verb intransitive To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.
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