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noun ˈhɔːkəˈhɔkər A person who travels about selling goods, typically advertising them by shouting. hawkers and costermongers pushed their little handcarts, crying ‘Bread!’, ‘Fish!’ and ‘Meat pies!’ Example sentencesExamples - The hawkers sell all and sundry: from handkerchiefs to electronic goods.
- Mehmood, their father, is a hawker selling odd food items.
- At night, it turns into a massive open air cafe area, with dozens of food hawkers selling a variety of food, from the traditional to the modern.
- Hawkers came to sell their wares in small row boats near the cruise boats.
- One day soon hawkers will be selling miniature plastic replicas outside.
- City authorities will plan to wipe out the sight of beggars and hawkers selling flowers or newspapers at intersections.
- Shopfronts and stalls were open, with hawkers shouting and displaying their wares for the crowds.
- Nearly 25 per cent of the collected waste was sold to hawkers.
- The city of Johannesburg is developing a programme to assist hawkers who sell food on the streets of the city.
- Gradually market traders and hawkers moved in until eventually the tunnel became a seedy backwater.
- A wide range of commodities ranging from fruits to light bulbs are sold by enterprising hawkers.
- At the resorts, hawkers sell designer replicas and reproductions to a ready eastern European market, as well as the growing number of Germans and British visitors.
- The law forbids it, but these street hawkers slaughter animals and sell the meat to the poor.
- The Municipality is not happy with hawkers who sell on street corners in the industrial area.
- Tickets were sold in advance for $45, but street hawkers were selling them for about $200.
- At the entrances to subway stations, hawkers who used to sell city maps have shifted their focus to the rain business.
- To meet the family's financial needs, his 19 year-old son quit school and now works as a hawker selling vegetables.
- Street corners are dotted with hawkers selling their pies hot from portable ovens.
- The crowd swelled as the day progressed, to the great pleasure of hawkers selling eatables and tea.
- On the way out of the chamber afterwards several different party journals were being sold by hawkers.
Synonyms trader, seller, dealer, purveyor, vendor, tout, barrow boy, door-to-door salesman, travelling salesman, pedlar West Indian higgler informal pusher archaic chapman, packman rare huckster, crier, colporteur
Origin Early 16th century: probably from Low German or Dutch and related to huckster. Rhymes caulker (US calker), corker, Lorca, Majorca, Minorca, orca, porker, squawker, stalker, talker, walker, yorker noun ˈhɔːkəˈhɔkər 2A slender-bodied dragonfly that remains airborne for long periods, typically patrolling a particular stretch of water. Aeshnidae, Gomphidae, and other families, order Odonata: several genera Example sentencesExamples - The hawkers, or dragon nymphs, are longer and thinner and they patrol up and down looking out for prey on which to swoop.
Origin Old English hafocere, from hafoc 'hawk'. nounˈhôkərˈhɔkər A person who travels around selling goods, typically advertising them by shouting. hawkers pushed their little handcarts, crying “Bread!”, “Fish!” and “Meat pies!” Example sentencesExamples - Street corners are dotted with hawkers selling their pies hot from portable ovens.
- At night, it turns into a massive open air cafe area, with dozens of food hawkers selling a variety of food, from the traditional to the modern.
- At the entrances to subway stations, hawkers who used to sell city maps have shifted their focus to the rain business.
- Mehmood, their father, is a hawker selling odd food items.
- The Municipality is not happy with hawkers who sell on street corners in the industrial area.
- The city of Johannesburg is developing a programme to assist hawkers who sell food on the streets of the city.
- Tickets were sold in advance for $45, but street hawkers were selling them for about $200.
- Hawkers came to sell their wares in small row boats near the cruise boats.
- Gradually market traders and hawkers moved in until eventually the tunnel became a seedy backwater.
- A wide range of commodities ranging from fruits to light bulbs are sold by enterprising hawkers.
- The crowd swelled as the day progressed, to the great pleasure of hawkers selling eatables and tea.
- Nearly 25 per cent of the collected waste was sold to hawkers.
- At the resorts, hawkers sell designer replicas and reproductions to a ready eastern European market, as well as the growing number of Germans and British visitors.
- Shopfronts and stalls were open, with hawkers shouting and displaying their wares for the crowds.
- On the way out of the chamber afterwards several different party journals were being sold by hawkers.
- City authorities will plan to wipe out the sight of beggars and hawkers selling flowers or newspapers at intersections.
- To meet the family's financial needs, his 19 year-old son quit school and now works as a hawker selling vegetables.
- The law forbids it, but these street hawkers slaughter animals and sell the meat to the poor.
- The hawkers sell all and sundry: from handkerchiefs to electronic goods.
- One day soon hawkers will be selling miniature plastic replicas outside.
Synonyms trader, seller, dealer, purveyor, vendor, tout, barrow boy, door-to-door salesman, travelling salesman, pedlar
Origin Early 16th century: probably from Low German or Dutch and related to huckster. Origin Old English hafocere, from hafoc ‘hawk’. |