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Word: Hawker
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 16th century: probably from Low German or Dutch and related to huckster
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈhɔːkə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a person who travels about selling goods, typically advertising them by shouting
Short Definition:person who travels about selling goods
Examples:- hawkers and costermongers pushed their little handcarts, crying ‘Bread!’, ‘Fish!’ and ‘Meat pies!’
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