hucksterage

English

Etymology

From huckster +‎ -age.

Noun

hucksterage (uncountable)

1. (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

• “hucksterage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.