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Huckster vs Charlatan - What's the difference?

huckster | charlatan |

As nouns the difference between huckster and charlatan

is that huckster is a peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall or in the street while charlatan is charlatan, quack.

As a verb huckster

is to haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.

As an adjective charlatan is

said of someone who talks frivolously.

huckster

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall or in the street.
  • (Jonathan Swift)
  • Somebody who manner.
  • One who s.
  • Somebody who writes s for radio or television.
  • A person.
  • * Bishop Hall
  • Instead of turning to me and keeping to the works of charity and justice, he is a mere heathen huckster .
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}

    See also

    * pitchman * spruiker

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * hucksterism

    References

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    charlatan

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
  • Synonyms

    * swindler * mountebank * fraudster * con-artist * conman * imposter, impostor * fraud * phony * fake * See also