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noun
A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
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noun
Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
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noun
One who deceptively sells fraudulent products; snake oil salesman.
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noun
Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
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verb
To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To sell or offer (goods) from place to place, to peddle.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To promote or sell (goods) in an aggressive, showy manner.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
a seller of shoddy goods
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Synonyms: cheap-jack
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Broader terms: seller, marketer, vender, vendor, trafficker
noun
a person who writes radio or tv advertisements
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Broader terms: advertiser, advertizer, adman
verb
wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: haggle, higgle, chaffer
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Broader terms: dicker, bargain
Narrower terms: beat down, bargain down
verb
sell or offer for sale from place to place
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: peddle, monger, hawk, vend, pitch
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Broader terms: deal, sell, trade
History
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. By surface analysis, huck + -ster.
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