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huckstery

Meaning of "huckstery" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HUCKSTERY

ˈhʌkstərɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HUCKSTERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Huckstery is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HUCKSTERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of huckstery in the English dictionary

The first definition of huckstery in the dictionary is the business of a huckster. Other definition of huckstery is the place in which the huckster's trade is carried out. Huckstery is also haggling, petty bargaining.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HUCKSTERY

allostery · battery · blistery · blustery · clustery · consistory · directory · elementary · herstory · history · mastery · monastery · mystery · phrontistery · prehistory · protohistory · psychohistory · self-mastery · upholstery · wastery

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HUCKSTERY

huck · huckaback · huckery · huckle · huckleberries · huckleberry · hucklebone · huckster · hucksterage · hucksteress · hucksterism · huckstress · HUD · Huddersfield · huddle · huddled · huddler · Huddleston · huddup · hudibrastic

WORDS THAT END LIKE HUCKSTERY

adultery · artery · baptistery · buttery · cemetery · coronary artery · dicastery · eatery · flustery · glittery · lottery · magistery · murder mystery · phalanstery · plastery · poetastery · pottery · slaistery · watery · whoremastery

Synonyms and antonyms of huckstery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «huckstery» into 25 languages

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The translations of huckstery from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «huckstery» in English.
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huckstery
1,325 millions of speakers
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huckstery
570 millions of speakers
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huckstery
510 millions of speakers
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huckstery
380 millions of speakers
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huckstery
280 millions of speakers
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huckstery
278 millions of speakers
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huckstery
270 millions of speakers
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ফেরি
260 millions of speakers
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huckstery
220 millions of speakers
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Huckstery
190 millions of speakers
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huckstery
180 millions of speakers
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huckstery
130 millions of speakers
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huckstery
85 millions of speakers
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Huckstery
85 millions of speakers
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huckstery
80 millions of speakers
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huckstery
75 millions of speakers
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झुंज
75 millions of speakers
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huckstery
70 millions of speakers
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huckstery
65 millions of speakers
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huckstery
50 millions of speakers
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huckstery
40 millions of speakers
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huckstery
30 millions of speakers
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huckstery
15 millions of speakers
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huckstery
14 millions of speakers
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huckstery
10 millions of speakers
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huckstery
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Trends of use of huckstery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HUCKSTERY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about huckstery

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUCKSTERY»

Discover the use of huckstery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to huckstery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Reprint of Jones's Directory, Or, Useful Pocket Companion, ...
35 Duncan John, mealseller and huckstery, shop High-str. No. 28 Duncan Allan, coppersmith, south side Bridgegate Dunlop William, merchant, east side King's- street Dunlop James, Esq; of Garnkirk, head of Virginia-str. Dunlop John ...
Nathaniel Jones, 1866
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A Reprint of Jones's Directory; or useful Pocket Companion ...
Nathaniel JONES (of Glasgow.) Duncan John, Milnfield Snuff mills upon Kelvin Duncan Andrew, baker, Trongate, No. 35 Duncan John, mealseller and huckstery , shop High-str. No. 28 Duncan Allan, coppersmith, south side Bridgegate Dunlop  ...
Nathaniel JONES (of Glasgow.), 1866
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The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On ...
An optimistic assessment of the potential world-improving opportunities associated with the climate crisis argues that suffering and conflict anticipated for the next several decades will also promote unprecedented levels of human ...
Paul Gilding, 2011
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A Dictionary of the Manks Language, with the Corresponding ...
CA'nJmAon, a. commonly, generally, &c. CA'nnNvs, s. m. common custom, vulgarity. CAn'Jna, s. m. a huckster, amonger. CAn'JnaAon, a. huckstering. CAn' mavs, s. m. huckstery, mongery. CAn'LAo, s. m. a sleeper, a sluggard,. such as sleep a ...
Archibald Cregeen, 1835
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Visit to Germany and the Low Countries in the Years 1829, ...
He therefore never gets into a gale of wind with his wife when he can help it, knowing that the odds are, both get bolt upon a shoal. Bonn Fair.-~The town is to- day filled with the vilest huckstery, much too bad even for a Portsmouth slop-shop .
Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner, 1833
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The Sporting Review
The retail trade in fox-hunting is at an end, and I see so cause to regret that such an inconvenient huckstery has run its course. In Leicestershire a second short dynasty has come to a conclusion ' with the secession of Mr. Hodgson.
" "Craven, 1841
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The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: ...
Regrator is derived of the French word rrgratement, for huckstery. But in ancient time both the inn grossor and regrator were comprehended under forestaller. It was 5 resolved by the juslices and barons of the exchequer upon conference ...
Sir Edward Coke, 1817
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Shakespeare's True Life
There has ever been enough of sentiment to keep its sordid huckstery from intruding its bar and booth up to the very cheeks of death and the grave. The clank of hammers creative of cherub heads, or what, to some minds — - suffering under ...
James Walter, 1890
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.
... at Epsom Races (proper) were £615 At Ascot, no expenses, the "charge" on a Selling Plate produced £68 — a liberal nine hundred per cent, to the credit of Surrey. I say, I " denounced handicapping ;" I showed that I expose huckstery in race ...
John William Carleton
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Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons: In ...
A certain lawyer's office in Boston became a huckstery of kidnappers' warrants. Soon the kidnappers had Shadrach in their fiery furnace, heated seven times hotter than before for William and Ellen Craft. But the Lord delivered him out of their ...
Theodore Parker, 1859

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUCKSTERY»

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Entertainment Geekly: The Disney Myth in 'Saving Mr. Banks' and …
But it's really a demonstration of Hollywood at its most huckstery: Disney telling Travers that he'll take her work and turn it into something that ... «Entertainment Weekly, Dec 13»
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Today's Your Last Day To Watch 250+ Criterion Movies Not In The …
... another cinematic treasure trove of often-hard-to-find films that one can stream for relatively cheap (and without sounding too huckstery about ... «Indie Wire, Feb 13»
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Marvin Miller, The Man Who Beat Some Sense Into Baseball
In an era presided over by the huckstery likes of Selig and Stern and Goodell, people dedicated to obfuscating those pieces of Miller's legacy ... «Deadspin, Nov 12»
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