Grifter vs Huckster - What's the difference?
grifter | huckster |
A con man. Someone who pulls confidence games.
:1939 . "We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel". The Big Sleep .
:1958 . "That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew". That Hell-Bound Train .
A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall or in the street.
Somebody who manner.
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Somebody who writes s for radio or television.
A person.
* Bishop Hall
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
To promote/sell goods in an aggressive/ showy manner.
As nouns the difference between grifter and huckster
is that grifter is a con man. Someone who pulls confidence games while huckster is a peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.As a verb huckster is
to haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.grifter
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(en noun)huckster
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(en noun)- (Jonathan Swift)
- Instead of turning to me and keeping to the works of charity and justice, he is a mere heathen huckster .
Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}