Synonyms for huckster

Most common

hawk · peddle · monger · vend · chaffer

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

Noun

Definitions

1. v. 1

   To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.

2. v. 2

   To sell or offer (goods) from place to place, to peddle.

3. n. 1

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

Forms

Plural

hucksters → peddlers, cheap-jacks, hawkers, cadgers…

Past participle

huckstered
e.g. huckstered → mongered, peddled, hawked, vended…

Example sentences

• hawk Tom has been watching Mary like a hawk all morning.
• peddle Newspapers peddle disaster scenarios.
• monger To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
• vend The French Republic was proclaimed on 1 Vendémiaire, Year I.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

hawk¹, vend

5 letters

pitch¹

6 letters

peddle², hawker², monger², haggle², pedlar, higgle, cadger

7 letters

chapman², peddler², chaffer

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (peddle² = 2 syllables).