Huckster

[3] In the United States, a connotation of trickery developed – the huckster might trick others into buying cheap imitation products as if they were the real thing.

In Scotland, the term "huckster" referred to a person, usually a woman, who bought goods, watered them down, and resold them in tiny quantity to others who were too poor to buy quality products available at market value.

Scots burghs often felt the need to control hucksters because they operated without a stall, on the economic fringes.

In particular, they were subject to accusations of forestalling, in this case, the practice of buying goods wholesale, "before the stall" and therefore before tax was paid.

They sourced raw materials from their own holdings or purchased goods from other sellers and carried their products to the market place in baskets or on their heads.

Direct sellers, who brought produce from the surrounding countryside, sold their wares through the central market place and priced their goods at considerably lower rates than cheesemongers.

The Grocer, through his haggling and bargaining, is seen as industrious because he possesses the jam and butter (sensual pleasure), and the student is seen as poor but happy because he appreciates the beauty of poetry above all else.

[10] In the novel "The Black Stallion" by Walter Farley, the supporting character Tony is described as a huckster, in the sense that he works as a vegetable salesman in New York City's smaller streets, selling from a horse-drawn cart.