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hucksterish

adj

Etymology

From huckster + -ish.

  1. derived from *kuk-néh₂✻
  2. derived from *huk-✻
  3. derived from hokester
  4. derived from höken — “to peddle”
  5. inherited from hukster
  6. suffixed as hucksterish — “huckster + ish”

Definitions

  1. Like a huckster in some way

    Like a huckster in some way; showy, fraudulent, etc.

    • How often have hucksterish entrepreneurs declared their intent of turning their outfit into "the Wal-Mart of" whatever it may be?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hucksterish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA