how to pronounce huckster

/ˈhʌk.stəɹ/

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huckster is pronounced in two syllables

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hʌkstəɹ

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An example use of huckster in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… ambitious huckster that he really was …”

meanings of huckster

noun:

  1. A mean, deceptive person.
  2. Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
  3. Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
  4. A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
  5. One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.

verb:

  1. To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
  2. To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
  3. To promote or sell goods in an aggressive, showy manner.

huckster frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word huckster occurs in english on average 0 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics huckster can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that huckster can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;

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