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huckster
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.
