Palter vs Huckster - What's the difference?
palter | huckster |
To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
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* 2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
To trifle.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
*:He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust. Why hadn't he come straight to him—whatever the mysterious document was—instead of talking it over with French featherheads?
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 100
To haggle.
To babble; to chatter.
A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall or in the street.
Somebody who manner.
One who s.
Somebody who writes s for radio or television.
A person.
* Bishop Hall
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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, 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 verbs the difference between palter and huckster
is that palter is to talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions while huckster is to haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.As a noun huckster is
a peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall or in the street.palter
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- Romans, that have spoke the word, / And will not palter .
- Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, / Nor paltered with eternal God for power.
- I would prevaricate and palter in my usual plausible way, but, this being Cambridge, such stratagems would cut no ice with my remorseless and (in my imagination) gleefully malicious interrogator, who would stare at me with gimlet eyes and say in a harsh voice that crackled with mocking laughter: ‘Excuse me, but do you even know who Lermontov is ?’
- Palter out your time in the penal statutes.
- Don't palter with the second rate.
- (Cotgrave)
Derived terms
* paltererAnagrams
*huckster
English
Noun
(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.}}