1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hucksters, itinerant retailers of provisions.
2. (old).—A mean trickster.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
In huckster’s hands, adv. phr. (old).—See quot.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hucksters.… In huckster’s hands, at a desperate Pass, or Condition, or in a fair way to be Lost.
Hucksum (also Huckle, or Huckle-bone, or Huck-bone).—The hip.
c. 1508. Dunbar, Flyting (Poems, ed. 1834, ii., 72). With huck-bones harth and haw.
d. 1529. Skelton, Elynor Rummyn (Poems, 1843, i.). The bones of her huckels Lyke as they were buckels.
1575. Still, Gammer Gurton’s Needle, i., 3 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, iii., 180). For bursting of her huckle-bone, or breaking of her shin.
Huddle, verb. (venery).—To copulate. For synonyms, see Greens and Ride.