huckster

• vt. 叫賣；討價還價
• n. 叫賣的小販；小商人；吃廣告飯的人
• vi. 叫賣；做小商販

huck,蹲下，叫賣，詞源同hawker,-ster,人。

huckster

huckster: [12] The Low German dialects of northern Germany appear to have had in prehistoric times a root *huk- which denoted ‘sell’. It has been suggested that this was the source of English hawker ‘peddler’, and with the alternative agent suffix -ster (which originally signified ‘female doer’, but in Low German was used for males) it produced huckster – perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch hokester.
=> hawk

huckster (n.)

c. 1200, "petty merchant, peddler" (often contemptuous), from Middle Dutch hokester "peddler," from hoken "to peddle" (see hawk (v.1)) + agent suffix -ster (which was typically feminine in English, but not in Low German). Specific sense of "advertising salesman" is from 1946 novel by Frederick Wakeman. As a verb, from 1590s. Related: Huckstered; huckstering.

1. A huckster offered to sell Carnegie the formula for guaranteed success for $20,000.

一名騙子推銷員提出以兩萬美元的價格賣給卡內基一張保證成功的秘方。

來自辭典例句