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See also: Hawker
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɔːkə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɔkɚ/, /ˈhɑkɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɔːkə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
[edit]Probably Borrowed from Low German or Dutch, from Middle Low German hoker and ultimately from the root of huckster.
Noun
[edit]hawker (plural hawkers)
- A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- The other [witness] was one Sim Doolittle, the fish hawker from Allerfoot, jogging home in his fish cart from Gledsmuir fair.
- 2011 May, Azhar Ghani, “A Recipe for Success: How Singapore Hawker Centres Came to Be”, in IPS Update[1], Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies:
- First-generation hawkers were mostly immigrants from China, and to a smaller extent from India and the Malay Archipelago. A 1950 Hawkers Inquiry Commission report stated that 84 per cent of the hawkers in Singapore were Chinese.
- Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
Usage notes
[edit]- In the 19th century, a hawker referred specifically to a itinerant merchant, while a peddler/pedlar referred to a stationary merchant.[1] This distinction is no longer upheld.
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
Translations
[edit]peddler — see peddler
dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae
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Further reading
[edit]hawker (trade) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
hawker (dragonfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Middle English hawkere, from Old English hafocere, hafecere; by surface analysis, hawk + -er.
Noun
[edit]hawker (plural hawkers)
Translations
[edit]falconer — see falconer
References
[edit]- ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Hawker, sb.1”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 131, column 3.
- ^ Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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