huckster

英 ['h?kst?] 美['h?kst?]

GRETEM8暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?hucksters;

1. hawk => huck- + -ster => huckster.

huckster 強(qiáng)行推銷的人，沿街叫賣的小販

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(nèi)基一張保證成功的秘方。