huckster vs spruik

huckster

verb
  • To promote or sell goods in an aggressive, showy manner. 

  • To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain. 

  • To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle. 

noun
  • Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner. 

  • One who deceptively sells fraudulent products. 

  • Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television. 

  • A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street. 

spruik

verb
  • To promote a thing or idea to another person, usually informally. 

How often have the words huckster and spruik occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )