hawker (redirected from Hawkers)

hawk·er  (hôkr)

n.

One who sells goods aggressively, especially by calling out.

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[Middle English hauker, probably from Middle Low German höker, from hken, to peddle, bend, bear on the back.]

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hawker¹

n

(Business / Commerce) a person who travels from place to place selling goods

[probably from Middle Low German hōker, from hōken to peddle; see huckster]

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hawker²

n

(Individual Sports & Recreations / Falconry) a person who hunts with hawks, falcons, etc.

[Old English hafecere; see hawk¹, -er¹]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	hawker - someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman chapman - archaic term for an itinerant peddler cheapjack - a peddler of inferior goods crier - a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells muffin man - formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins sandboy - a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy' marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor - someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money transmigrante - a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell
	2.	hawker - a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry falconer hunter, huntsman - someone who hunts game

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hawker

noun pedlar, tout, vendor, travelling salesman, crier, huckster, barrow boy (Brit.), door-to-door salesman It was a visitor and not a hawker or tramp at the door.

Translations

hawker [ˈhɔːkəʳ] N → vendedor(a) m/f ambulante

hawker [ˈhɔːkə^r] n → colporteur/euse m/f

hawker

n

(= hunter) → Falkner(in) m(f)

(= pedlar, door-to-door) → Hausierer(in) m(f); (in street) → Straßenhändler(in) m(f); (at market) → Marktschreier(in) m(f)

hawker [ˈhɔːkəʳ] n → venditore/trice ambulante