User:Jnestorius/huckstery

Alternative spellings

 * huxtery

Etymology

 * huckster + -ery

Noun

 * 1) cheap assorted goods such as those sold by a huckster
 * 2) *William Carleton (1857) The Black Baronet; or, the Chronicles of Ballytrain Chapter XIV "Crackenfudge put upon a Wrong Scent"
 * It was evident, also, that the proprietor dealt in huckstery, as he saw a shop in which there was bacon, meal, oats, eggs, potatoes, bread, and such other articles as are usually to be found in small establishments of the kind.
 * 1) *ibid. Chapter XXXI "The Priest goes into Corbet's House very like a Thief"
 * His wife was weighing huckstery with her back to the counter
 * 1) occupation or trade of a huckster
 * 2) * (January 1845) Anthologia Germanica, 19: "Miscellaneous Poems" in Dublin University Magazine Vol.25 No.145 p.95 (Dublin: William Curry Jun. & Co.)
 * He might go back to the shop, and set up in the huckstery line
 * 1) small shop or stall which sells huckstery
 * 2) mean, disreputable, or dishonest business
 * 3) * "Ethnickus" (6 September 1806) "Jewish Predominance" in Cobbett's Weekly Political Register Vol.X No.10 p.213
 * We see that every soul of them, male or female, takes with alacrity to traffick, from the children that sell shoe-strings and pick pockets near the Bank, up to the richest of the race.—It is all a nursery of commerce; the fountain of brokerage, exchange and barter; and the living principle of all kinds of jobbing and huckstery.
 * 1) *(1811) Analysis of a new system of general education p.87
 * This market may assist the farmer to dispose of his butter and cheese, as well as of his corn; but care shall be taken, that it does not degenerate into a huckstery.
 * 1) *Theodore Parker (29 May 1851) "The Duty of Ministers under the Fugitive Slave Law"; speech at the Ministerial Conference of the American Unitarian Association; published in Additional speeches, addresses, and occasional sermons Vol.1 p.59 (1855) (Boston: Little, Brown & Co.)
 * A certain lawyer's office in Boston became a huckstery of kidnappers' warrants.
 * 1) public relations, spin
 * 2) an instance of spin or misleading advocacy