huckster

• vt.売り歩く; 駆け引きする
• n.行商人；小商人；広告を食べる人
• vi.鷹をする；鷹匠になる

huckは「しゃがむ」、hawkは「タカをくくる」、語源的にはhawkerと同じ、-sterは「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フォーミュラfor guaranteed success for$20000.

詐欺師のセールスマンが、カーネギーに2万ドルで成功を保証する秘策を提案した。