huckster
英['h?kst?]
美['h?kst?]
- vt. 叫賣；討價(jià)還價(jià)
- n. 叫賣的小販；小商人；吃廣告飯的人
- vi. 叫賣；做小商販
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?hucksters;
助記提示
1. hawk => huck- + -ster => huckster.
中文詞源
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。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 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(jià)格賣給卡內(nèi)基一張保證成功的秘方。
來自辭典例句