On Sunday 12 August 2012 15:08:19 Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > >> This is a variation of the old and tired bit of husksterism, which
> > >
> > > My standard translation sources do not even list that word or similar
> > > ones.
> >
> > I'm not sure what Bryan means either. I think he may have conflated a
> > couple of different words:
>
> huskerism (EN) = "Hausierei" (DE)
>
> Describes the activity of an unwated door-to-door salesman.
>
> Nik
>
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I think that he probably maent "hucksterism", which certainly exists.  I 
confess to not having come across the form "huskerism".

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/huckster

Lisi