Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to huckster
Participle: huckstered
Gerund: huckstering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | huckster |
| you | huckster |
| he;she;it | hucksters |
| we | huckster |
| you | huckster |
| they | huckster |
Perfect
| I | have huckstered |
| you | have huckstered |
| he;she;it | has huckstered |
| we | have huckstered |
| you | have huckstered |
| they | have huckstered |
Past
| I | huckstered |
| you | huckstered |
| he;she;it | huckstered |
| we | huckstered |
| you | huckstered |
| they | huckstered |
Pluperfect
| I | had huckstered |
| you | had huckstered |
| he;she;it | had huckstered |
| we | had huckstered |
| you | had huckstered |
| they | had huckstered |
Future
| I | will huckster |
| you | will huckster |
| he;she;it | will huckster |
| we | will huckster |
| you | will huckster |
| they | will huckster |
Future Perfect
| I | will have huckstered |
| you | will have huckstered |
| he;she;it | will have huckstered |
| we | will have huckstered |
| you | will have huckstered |
| they | will have huckstered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | huckster |
| you | huckster |
| he;she;it | huckster |
| we | huckster |
| you | huckster |
| they | huckster |
Perfect
| I | have huckstered |
| you | have huckstered |
| he;she;it | have huckstered |
| we | have huckstered |
| you | have huckstered |
| they | have huckstered |
Imperfect
| I | huckstered |
| you | huckstered |
| he;she;it | huckstered |
| we | huckstered |
| you | huckstered |
| they | huckstered |
Pluperfect
| I | had huckstered |
| you | had huckstered |
| he;she;it | had huckstered |
| we | had huckstered |
| you | had huckstered |
| they | had huckstered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would huckster |
| you | would huckster |
| he;she;it | would huckster |
| we | would huckster |
| you | would huckster |
| they | would huckster |
Perfect
| I | would have huckstered |
| you | would have huckstered |
| he;she;it | would have huckstered |
| we | would have huckstered |
| you | would have huckstered |
| they | would have huckstered |
Imperative
| you | huckster |
| we | Let's huckster |
| you | huckster |
Verbs conjugated like 'huckster'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'huckster'
backstep,
buckler,
fuster,
hamster,
hipster,
holster,
huisher,
hunker,
husher,
huxter,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1200, M.Du.
hokester "peddler," from
hoken "to peddle" (see hawk (v.)) + agent suffix
-ster (which was fem. in Eng., but not in Low Ger.). Derogatory sense is 16c.; specific sense of "advertising salesman" is from 1946 novel by Frederick Wakeman.
2. From Middle English hukster, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, from Middle Low German höken (“to peddle”) or Middle Dutch hokester, itself from hoeken (“to peddle, bend, bear on the back”), all from Proto-Germanic *huk-, probably related to *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of English high). Compare hawkster.
3. By surface analysis, huck + -ster. See: English '
high'.
Verbs referencing "huckster"
German, old spelling
hökern.
Sample Sentences
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[…] Paul Zindel aroused the hope that he might be a playwright in the Williams mode, one who could cast a kindly light in the dark corners of twisted souls. That is precisely the hope dashed by his latest play, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild. Here he is simply huckstering kookdom for cheap laughs, and not producing many of them at that. [1972 November 27, T.E.K., “Kook in a Candy Store”, in Time, volume 100, number 22, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., The Theater, page 73:]