What does hawker mean?
Hawker means A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods..
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/ˈhɔːkə/ · noun
A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods..
The other [witness] was one Sim Doolittle, the fish hawker from Allerfoot, jogging home in his fish cart from Gledsmuir fair.
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.
Use hawker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hawker means A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods..
Common synonyms include tout, huckster, falconer, cheap-jack.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The other [witness] was one Sim Doolittle, the fish hawker from Allerfoot, jogging home in his fish cart from Gledsmuir fair.
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