英语词汇“huckstery”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

huckstery

释义

huckstery|ˈhʌkstərɪ|
Forms: see huckster.
[f. huckster n. + -y.]
1. The trade or business of a huckster; the place in which he carries on his trade; pl. the goods dealt in by him (cf. groceries).
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 141 Heo haþ holden hoxterye [C. vii. 233 huckustrye] þis Elleuene wynter.1611Cotgr., Regratement, a..mending, or tricking vp of old things for sale; hucksterie.1826Blackw. Mag. XIX. Pref. 20 In the very shops and huxteries of our remotest towns and villages.1833Fraser's Mag. VIII. 280 A dealer in various articles, which..we shall call huxteries.
2. Petty bargaining, haggling; stickling.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 243 A more slow and delicate digestion doth loath all things, as it were with much huckstery.Ibid. 308 Great eaters, and those who are brought up with dainty huckstery, are..notably lean.
3. attrib.
1824Galt Rothelan I. i. vi. 55 Under the pent-house of a huxtry shop.1897Westm. Gaz. 12 June 4/3 The huckstery scheme of the Indian Government, spoken of as the Durand Treaty.

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