huckster

Other forms of huckster

plural

hucksters·

past tense

hucksterred·

present participle

hucksterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about huckster

What does huckster mean?

huckster means "a seller of shoddy goods". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in huckster?

huckster has 2 syllables: huck-ster. The stress falls on "huck". In IPA it is /ˈhʌkstɚ/.

What is another word for huckster?

Close synonyms include cheap-jack, peddle, monger, hawk, vend. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is huckster a common word?

huckster is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.