hawker

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
  2. noun a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry

Etymology

Probably Borrowed from Low German or Dutch, from Middle Low German hoker and ultimately from the root of huckster.

In classic literature

Synonyms

peddler, pedlar, packman, pitchman

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