huckstering
huckstering is the present participle and gerund of huckster.
Meaning of huckster
Verb
huckster (third-person singular simple present hucksters, present participle huckstering, simple past and past participle huckstered)
- To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
- To sell or offer (goods) from place to place, to peddle.
- To promote or sell (goods) in an aggressive, showy manner.
- […] Paul Zindel aroused the hope that he might be a playwright in the Williams mode, one who could cast a kindly light in the dark corners of twisted souls. That is precisely the hope dashed by his latest play, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild. Here he is simply huckstering kookdom for cheap...1972 November 27, T.E.K., “Kook in a Candy Store”, in Time, volume 100, number 22, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., The Theater, page 73
Noun
huckstering (plural hucksterings)
- The behavior of a huckster.
- Hucksterings and barterings, and all the rest, they will cheerfully leave to the mountebanks and jugglers to whom they appropriately belong.1858, Stephen Frank Miller, The bench and bar of Georgia
Forms of huckstering
| plural | hucksterings |
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Questions about huckstering
- What does huckstering mean?
- Huckstering means the behavior of a huckster.
- What is huckstering the present participle and gerund of?
- Huckstering is the present participle and gerund of huckster.
- What part of speech is huckstering?
- Huckstering is a noun.
- What is the plural of huckstering?
- The plural of huckstering is hucksterings.
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