Word
huck
/ˈhək/
Definition
n. a person who is very dishonest or a trickster. It is an old-fashioned word used to describe someone who tries to cheat or fool others.
n. a person who is dishonest, a trickster, or a swindler. Primarily used in the United States and considered archaic or dialectal in modern contexts.
Examples
“He was a real huck who tried to sell fake gold.”
“The old man was known as a huck for his many attempts to con tourists out of their money.”
“In the frontier towns of the nineteenth century, a huck was often a traveling salesman who relied on deception to sell inferior goods to unsuspecting residents.”
Examples
simple
“He was a real huck who tried to sell fake gold.”
contextual
“The old man was known as a huck for his many attempts to con tourists out of their money.”
complex
“In the frontier towns of the nineteenth century, a huck was often a traveling salesman who relied on deception to sell inferior goods to unsuspecting residents.”
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.
Backformation from huckle, or from Middle English hoke (“hook”); compare hokebone (“hip”).
From Middle English hukken, related to German höken (“to haggle; traffic”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scan code
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