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huckster

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Noun — A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.

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Comes from Middle English hukster, probably of Low German or Dutch origin: from Middle Low German höken (“to peddle”) or Middle Dutch hokester, itself from hoeken (“to peddle, bend, bear on the back”). All these trace to Proto-Germanic *huk-, probably related to *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the...

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