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hawker
2[ haw-ker ]
noun
- a person who peddles or hawks wares by shouting their offerings in the street or going from door to door; peddler.
hawker
1/ ˈɔːə /
noun
- a person who travels from place to place selling goods
hawker
2/ ˈɔːə /
noun
- a person who hunts with hawks, falcons, etc
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of hawker1
Origin of hawker2
Example Sentences
Most of his revenue now comes from wholesale customers – hawkers or those selling street-side snacks.
Goma residents filled the streets a few miles from the border with Rwanda - commuters headed to work, hawkers sold goods by the roadside and taxi drivers scrambled to win customers.
Burr’s appearance may boost those rankings, but the cancel culture canard is better at roping in views than a Times Square ticket hawker.
“Go back through the history of the past thousand years and you will find that nine-tenths of the popular idols of the world – have been hawkers of palpable nonsense.”
At a nearby market, several street hawkers told the BBC they had no other option but to leave their homes, even with gunmen roaming the streets.
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