hucksterage
English
editEtymology
editNoun
edithucksterage (uncountable)
- (archaic) The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:
- ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes
References
edit- “hucksterage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.