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noun hɔːkhɔk 1A bird of prey with broad rounded wings and a long tail, typically taking prey by surprise with a short chase. 鹰。比较FALCON Family Accipitridae: several genera, especially Accipiter, which includes the sparrowhawk and goshawk Compare with falcon Example sentencesExamples - The fencing is 5 feet high and has occasional cross fencing to keep hawks from swooping in and snatching up one of the chickens.
- Quarry is eaten on the ground or on a stump, the hawk standing with both feet on its victim, drooping wings to form a tent and spreading its tail as if to give support.
- Bird watchers will be treated to the sight of caracara hawks, Florida sandhill cranes, and numerous other species.
- Red-tailed hawks and turkey vultures circled above us in a blue sky.
- In addition to rare plants and wildflowers, you'll find hawks and ospreys lining the river and a host of waders along the shoreline.
- The blinding sun flashed over the graceful wings of the hawk soaring through the clouds.
- Students will probably never forget the hawk spreading his magnificent wings as Mrs. Beck held him above her head.
- Around the lake we could see samples of most of Florida's native birds, such as osprey, anhinga, eagles, hawks, and herons.
- The family Accipitridae encompasses many of the diurnal birds of prey, including the familiar hawks and eagles.
- Many wild hatchlings of these earlier returnees have fallen prey to Galapagos hawks, a natural predator that has coexisted with tortoises for eons.
- Gulls, hawks and vultures soar, swallows and terns skim the surface of water.
- Look for seals and river otters that sometimes come in at high tide and hawks that cruise the surrounding fields for small game.
- If you're lucky, you can sight one of the smaller numbers of red-shoulder hawks, red-tail hawks and the elusive, endangered Peregrine Falcon.
- There remain some obstinate holdouts from the old marsh life, including a pair of nesting hawks who perch on the light standards over the roadway, scanning the cars going in and out of the university.
- When I tipped my head back, I saw the hawk buckle its wings and plummet behind the trees.
- To her surprise, an enormous hawk was perched on the branch of the cherry blossom tree.
- He's also a nature lover and when he saw a hawk chasing pigeons around the Kennaway Hotel on Friday morning he watched in awe.
- The falconers show us their range of beautiful but fairly sinister birds - hawks, eagles, vultures etc - and then treat us to an outdoor display with a falcon.
- Along waterways and ponds you're likely to see parrots and macaws, hawks and jabiru storks.
- His crest hung on the wooden wall, the black hawk with wings perched in a frightful pose staring at her with its piercing golden eyes.
- 1.1North American A bird of prey related to the buzzards.
〈北美〉鵟 Example sentencesExamples - He explained to the judge he couldn't help himself out there under the blue sky, under the billowing clouds, way way up, the gliding buzzard hawks circling, circling, free as the breeze.
- 1.2Falconry Any diurnal bird of prey used in falconry.
〔猎鹰〕猎鹰 Example sentencesExamples - Employees from Ashford Castle's school of falconry bring hawks and falcons to Rathroeen where they keep vermin and other birds at bay.
- It is Britain's leading hatchery for the export of hunting hawks and falcons and the chicks it sends to clients in Africa, India and the United States are valued at thousands of pounds.
- An Ayrshire school was forced to hire falconers armed with hawks to safeguard its pupils.
- But the next day, they happen upon a group of people hunting with falcons and hawks, one of which is an elegant, noble, beautiful lady.
- He enjoyed the atmosphere and, despite the distance, is interested in bringing his owls, hawks and falcons back down next year.
- The regular flying demonstrations give visitors the opportunity to see some of the 75 eagles, falcons, hawks, vultures and owls at close range.
- The main aim of the business is to breed and sell falcons and hawks, with ‘experience’ days for groups of two to six people involving about four cars a day.
- A favorite hunting hawk of the emperors flew into the camp of Guru Hargobind who was also hunting.
- He resembles a small hawk or falcon who has just been unhooded: rapt, sharp-featured, luminously alive to the moment.
2A person who advocates an aggressive or warlike policy, especially in foreign affairs. 鹰派人物（尤指主张强硬或好战外交政策者）。比较 DOVE1 （义项2） severe limits were put on the peace plan by party hawks Compare with dove (sense 2) Example sentencesExamples - Gore, too, once was a moderate, a founder of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council and a hawk on foreign policy.
- Americans may indeed be well served externally at this dangerous juncture by the unsentimental foreign policy hawks that tend to predominate in the Republican Party.
- Most liberal hawks have advocated a muscular enforcement of the human rights agenda.
- With respect to China, it is true that September 11 did block movement toward a new hard-line policy from Washington that some administration hawks may have wanted.
- Leading hawks within the Bush administration are gloating over their humbling of Europe and are opposed to any concessions to America's rivals.
- Right now, the Democratic foreign policy hawks are calling for more troops - an impossibility.
- I'm a fiscal conservative, social/cultural liberal and foreign policy hawk.
- During the cold war even the most extreme hawks were chastened in their aggressive impulses by fear of escalation into a full-blown conflict with the USSR.
- Japan's leaders are neither doves nor hawks but pragmatists, for whom economic and military security are equally important.
- ‘Regime change’ is now the justification for war, with all that this implies for the future plans of the hawks in the White House.
- The administration hawks don't want disarmament, they want conquest; and whether or not they get to pursue it in this case, their overall objectives will not change.
- Though he remains a shrewd guide to the hypocrisies of Arab leaders, his views on foreign policy now scarcely diverge from those of pro-Israel hawks in the Bush Administration.
- Few believe these same Cold War hawks actually care about foreign peoples, as they were fairly open about their indifference to human rights not so long ago.
- Mirroring the shallowness of hawks, who condemn peaceniks for their lack of patriotism, many doves castigate anyone who is not opposed to war.
- The hawks and the peaceniks, the left and the right, all believed that we would, indeed fight the Soviets over Western Europe, over missiles in Cuba, etc.
- Pakistan, North Korea and China are also developing weapons of mass destruction but even the most rabid hawks in the US government are not talking about invading those countries.
- He's following the path of conservative hawks who have derailed progress with North Korea for the past decade.
- I'm a classical liberal, economically (laissez-faire is my mantra) and a hawk on foreign policy and defense.
- The hawks saw the new policy as providing political cover for war, humoring the international community while remaining hostile to the return of the weapons inspectors.
- Unable in a state election to run as a foreign policy hawk, she did the next best thing by choosing a Republican admiral as her running mate.
3Used in names of hawkmoths, e.g. eyed hawk. 用于天蛾名称中，如eyed hawk
verb hɔːkhɔk [no object]1(of a person) hunt game with a trained hawk. （人）带鹰出猎 he spent the afternoon hawking 他整个下午都在用猎鹰打猎。 Example sentencesExamples - Successful hawking becomes routine, and soon one hunt per day is not enough.
- They were also one of the most popular game birds for hawking and Henry VIII passed legislation imposing heavy fines on those caught stealing heron eggs or killing them by any means other than hawking.
- She had a weakness for fine clothes and being a vigorous lady, she enjoyed hawking, shooting the long bow, and making the trip from Theobalds to Westminster, a dozen miles away on horseback.
2(of a bird or dragonfly) hunt on the wing for food. （鸟，蜻蜓）飞行觅食 swifts hawked low over the water 雨燕在水面上低飞觅食。 Example sentencesExamples - I did see a few egrets in the fields (maybe cattle egrets) and a group of blue-cheeked bee-eaters hawking for insects and perching on powerlines.
- Gone were flocks of starlings feeding along the runway; no kestrels hawking on the infields for small mammals; egrets, herons, crows, gulls, and geese all but disappeared.
- Swifts screaming overhead, hawking for insects in their no-compromise lifestyle.
- Fishing bats are large, yellow-orange, and rather pungent creatures that can hawk large flying insects or snag small ocean fish from the surf.
- For the first time this year there were lots of swifts hawking the riverside fields.
PhrasesMiss nothing of what is going on around one. 明察秋毫 Example sentencesExamples - Irene has eyes like a hawk and radar ears, nothing slips by her senses.
- Mr. Martin has eyes like a hawk, and sees all.
- He had eyes like a hawk and was usually very perceptive.
- I tried to duck away without being seen, but Wright had eyes like a hawk and spotted me.
watch someone like a hawk Keep a vigilant eye on someone, especially to check that they do nothing wrong. 严密监视 she watched them like a hawk because some of them were bound to cheat Example sentencesExamples - My gaze caught Donovan's, who was watching me like a hawk.
- He settled back in his chair, but I noticed that he was watching me like a hawk.
- Fear of losing their child kept them watching Matt like a hawk, staring at his arms for a sign, watching over his medications and sleeping habits.
- So anyway, I let them walk round, keeping their hands in their pockets to make sure they didn't nick anything and watching them like a hawk.
- Bung in the oven and bake for five to ten minutes until golden and crisp (watch them like a hawk as they can burn easily).
- I watch him like a hawk as he goes back to the car for some tools.
- She watches me like a hawk and I'm sure it's her careful eye that has helped me keep so well.
- Just being here, I've been watching them like a hawk and seeing what they're doing behind the scenes.
- Now the silent majority will be watching him like a hawk, putting everything he says under the microscope of what is and what isn't acceptable.
- Either way from the moment he arrived back on US soil the FBI watched him like a hawk.
OriginOld English hafoc, heafoc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch havik and German Habicht. In politics a hawk, a person who advocates hard-line or warlike policies, contrasts with a dove, a peacemaker. The terms emerged in the early 1960s at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, when the Soviet Union threatened to install missiles in Cuba within striking distance of the USA. To hawk meaning ‘to carry about and offer goods for sale’ was formed in the late 15th century, probably by removing the ending from hawker, ‘a person who travels around selling goods’. The latter word is not recorded until the early 16th century, when hawkers came to legal notice as something of a nuisance to be suppressed, but was most likely in use long before it was written down. It is related to huckster (Middle English), from a root meaning ‘to haggle, bargain’. See also haggard
Rhymesauk, baulk, Bork, caulk (US calk), chalk, cork, Dundalk, Falk, fork, gawk, Hawke, nork, orc, outwalk, pork, squawk, stalk, stork, talk, torc, torque, walk, york verb hɔːkhɔk [with object]Carry about and offer (goods) for sale, typically advertising them by shouting. 叫卖；兜售 street traders were hawking costume jewellery 街头小贩在叫卖不值钱的仿造珠宝。 Example sentencesExamples - Stall owners hawked their wares under canopies of brightly colored cloth.
- Hacks offered guided rides, property owners preserved battle damage for display, and relic hunters hawked everything from bones to bullets.
- By coincidence, the restaurant was across the street from where Bradbury was hawking newspapers.
- I felt a little uncharitable: maybe they were just honest but hard-up Grimsby trawlermen, reduced to hawking their catch on the streets.
- Men and women everywhere hawked government-controlled newspapers printed on a grayish, low-grade newsprint no doubt full of comparably dull propaganda.
- Young boys hawking phone cards and cigarettes circulate among the tables as regularly as the uniformed waiters.
- As recently as the late 1960s, vendors hawked turtle eggs in the streets of Chennai.
- She liked to shop, casually wandering throughout the market, occasionally listening to the white clad merchants hawk their wares.
- Bands played, people danced, and merchants hawked their wares.
- They spend hours browsing such jewellery hawked on pavements.
- McGauley does all the promotion himself, spending as many Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays as he can hawking his books at craft fairs, readings, and bookstore signings.
- The streets were crowded with all sorts of creatures hawking their wares and goods.
- I also saw Microsoft tablet PC kiosks in Denver, as well as a booth hawking Intel's new Centrino product.
- This conference exists so they can hawk their wares to an audience of government officials, in this case mostly mayors.
- At Miami Carnival in October, several soca music traders set up stalls at major venues, openly hawking illegally acquired wares and at giveaway prices.
- Children hawk small items and souvenirs, sometimes working for the vendors who have stalls in Sangha near the guesthouse.
- People are renting rooms, running taxis, selling ice-cream out of their front windows and hawking cigars and peanuts in the streets.
- We meandered through the men hawking Rolexes and Yankees knit caps, our coats and scarves wrapped tight to combat the brisk wind coming off the water.
- A bustling area at the crossroads, stands were set up where women and men were hawking things from jewels and fabrics to vegetables and fruits.
- While lots of children his age go to school, Rizki is on the street in the hot sun or rain seven days a week hawking papers while dodging the traffic.
OriginLate 15th century: probably a back-formation from hawker1. verb hɔːkhɔk [no object]1Clear the throat noisily. 清嗓子 he hawked and spat into the flames 他清了清嗓子，把痰吐到火里。 Example sentencesExamples - Plus, who doesn't like hawking up big gobs of phlegm?
- You hear everything: coughing, hawking up a loogey, vomiting.
- Their subtle lack of receptiveness is finally made flagrantly obvious when one noisily hawks an enormous loogie and spits it onto the stove, where it sizzles like an oyster at a beachside barbecue.
- Having spent most of last night coughing, hawking and spitting, I really wasn't in the mood for the arrival of Lucy Smooth's workmen this morning.
- Misogyny is metal's oldest, most boring trick and no less boring when it's spouted by some guy who sounds like he's trying to hawk up a loogie.
- He had hawked up as much phlegm and mucus as he could muster into that spit and watched it slide nastily down Cassius' face in streaks of yellow and white.
- 1.1hawk something upwith object Bring phlegm up from the throat.
从喉中用力咳痰 Example sentencesExamples - Adults have the type of lung TB that forms abscesses and they produce lots of sputum, lots of AFBS and can hawk it up to be tested.
- Well most people can hawk it up and spit it out of their mouth… but I cannot do that.
- I was prepared to neatly hawk it up, wipe my mouth, and toss my little bag in the nearest trash can.
- The whole thing sticks in my throat like a fish bone, and I've got to hawk it up or choke to death on it.
- They stood on the dusty grass together, blowing brown slime from their noses and hawking it up from their throats.
- I don't know if I swallowed it or hawked it up, but I couldn't get it to go either way for a long time.
- Regarding personal habits, you will meet few people who still manage snot and mucus in the traditional way by hawking it up noisily and then spitting, at least not in the city.
OriginLate 16th century: probably imitative. noun hɔːkhɔk A plasterer's square board with a handle underneath for carrying plaster or mortar. 镘灰板，灰泥托板 Example sentencesExamples - Load the mortar onto a mortar hawk, then press the filler into the joints with a joint filler.
- Moisten your plywood hawk and load it up with mortar. Hold the hawk against the wall and use a long, thin trowel to pack mortar into joints.
- For large jobs, a hawk is better than a mud pan.
- Load some stucco on a hawk and then onto your trowel.
OriginLate Middle English: of unknown origin. nounhôkhɔk 1A bird of prey with broad rounded wings and a long tail, typically taking prey by surprise with a short chase. 鹰。比较FALCON Family Accipitridae: several genera, especially Accipiter, which includes the Cooper's hawk and goshawk Compare with falcon Example sentencesExamples - To her surprise, an enormous hawk was perched on the branch of the cherry blossom tree.
- Around the lake we could see samples of most of Florida's native birds, such as osprey, anhinga, eagles, hawks, and herons.
- Red-tailed hawks and turkey vultures circled above us in a blue sky.
- In addition to rare plants and wildflowers, you'll find hawks and ospreys lining the river and a host of waders along the shoreline.
- The falconers show us their range of beautiful but fairly sinister birds - hawks, eagles, vultures etc - and then treat us to an outdoor display with a falcon.
- When I tipped my head back, I saw the hawk buckle its wings and plummet behind the trees.
- Along waterways and ponds you're likely to see parrots and macaws, hawks and jabiru storks.
- His crest hung on the wooden wall, the black hawk with wings perched in a frightful pose staring at her with its piercing golden eyes.
- If you're lucky, you can sight one of the smaller numbers of red-shoulder hawks, red-tail hawks and the elusive, endangered Peregrine Falcon.
- He's also a nature lover and when he saw a hawk chasing pigeons around the Kennaway Hotel on Friday morning he watched in awe.
- Bird watchers will be treated to the sight of caracara hawks, Florida sandhill cranes, and numerous other species.
- Gulls, hawks and vultures soar, swallows and terns skim the surface of water.
- Quarry is eaten on the ground or on a stump, the hawk standing with both feet on its victim, drooping wings to form a tent and spreading its tail as if to give support.
- There remain some obstinate holdouts from the old marsh life, including a pair of nesting hawks who perch on the light standards over the roadway, scanning the cars going in and out of the university.
- The fencing is 5 feet high and has occasional cross fencing to keep hawks from swooping in and snatching up one of the chickens.
- The blinding sun flashed over the graceful wings of the hawk soaring through the clouds.
- Students will probably never forget the hawk spreading his magnificent wings as Mrs. Beck held him above her head.
- Many wild hatchlings of these earlier returnees have fallen prey to Galapagos hawks, a natural predator that has coexisted with tortoises for eons.
- Look for seals and river otters that sometimes come in at high tide and hawks that cruise the surrounding fields for small game.
- The family Accipitridae encompasses many of the diurnal birds of prey, including the familiar hawks and eagles.
- 1.1North American A bird of prey related to the buteos.
〈北美〉鵟 Example sentencesExamples - He explained to the judge he couldn't help himself out there under the blue sky, under the billowing clouds, way way up, the gliding buzzard hawks circling, circling, free as the breeze.
- 1.2Falconry Any diurnal bird of prey used in falconry.
〔猎鹰〕猎鹰 Example sentencesExamples - The regular flying demonstrations give visitors the opportunity to see some of the 75 eagles, falcons, hawks, vultures and owls at close range.
- A favorite hunting hawk of the emperors flew into the camp of Guru Hargobind who was also hunting.
- It is Britain's leading hatchery for the export of hunting hawks and falcons and the chicks it sends to clients in Africa, India and the United States are valued at thousands of pounds.
- The main aim of the business is to breed and sell falcons and hawks, with ‘experience’ days for groups of two to six people involving about four cars a day.
- But the next day, they happen upon a group of people hunting with falcons and hawks, one of which is an elegant, noble, beautiful lady.
- Employees from Ashford Castle's school of falconry bring hawks and falcons to Rathroeen where they keep vermin and other birds at bay.
- An Ayrshire school was forced to hire falconers armed with hawks to safeguard its pupils.
- He resembles a small hawk or falcon who has just been unhooded: rapt, sharp-featured, luminously alive to the moment.
- He enjoyed the atmosphere and, despite the distance, is interested in bringing his owls, hawks and falcons back down next year.
2A person who advocates an aggressive or warlike policy, especially in foreign affairs. 鹰派人物（尤指主张强硬或好战外交政策者）。比较 DOVE1 （义项2） Compare with dove (sense 2) Example sentencesExamples - Right now, the Democratic foreign policy hawks are calling for more troops - an impossibility.
- Japan's leaders are neither doves nor hawks but pragmatists, for whom economic and military security are equally important.
- With respect to China, it is true that September 11 did block movement toward a new hard-line policy from Washington that some administration hawks may have wanted.
- Americans may indeed be well served externally at this dangerous juncture by the unsentimental foreign policy hawks that tend to predominate in the Republican Party.
- He's following the path of conservative hawks who have derailed progress with North Korea for the past decade.
- Mirroring the shallowness of hawks, who condemn peaceniks for their lack of patriotism, many doves castigate anyone who is not opposed to war.
- Pakistan, North Korea and China are also developing weapons of mass destruction but even the most rabid hawks in the US government are not talking about invading those countries.
- The hawks saw the new policy as providing political cover for war, humoring the international community while remaining hostile to the return of the weapons inspectors.
- Few believe these same Cold War hawks actually care about foreign peoples, as they were fairly open about their indifference to human rights not so long ago.
- Leading hawks within the Bush administration are gloating over their humbling of Europe and are opposed to any concessions to America's rivals.
- ‘Regime change’ is now the justification for war, with all that this implies for the future plans of the hawks in the White House.
- During the cold war even the most extreme hawks were chastened in their aggressive impulses by fear of escalation into a full-blown conflict with the USSR.
- Unable in a state election to run as a foreign policy hawk, she did the next best thing by choosing a Republican admiral as her running mate.
- The administration hawks don't want disarmament, they want conquest; and whether or not they get to pursue it in this case, their overall objectives will not change.
- Though he remains a shrewd guide to the hypocrisies of Arab leaders, his views on foreign policy now scarcely diverge from those of pro-Israel hawks in the Bush Administration.
- Most liberal hawks have advocated a muscular enforcement of the human rights agenda.
- I'm a fiscal conservative, social/cultural liberal and foreign policy hawk.
- Gore, too, once was a moderate, a founder of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council and a hawk on foreign policy.
- I'm a classical liberal, economically (laissez-faire is my mantra) and a hawk on foreign policy and defense.
- The hawks and the peaceniks, the left and the right, all believed that we would, indeed fight the Soviets over Western Europe, over missiles in Cuba, etc.
verbhôkhɔk [no object]1(of a person) hunt game with a trained hawk. （人）带鹰出猎 he spent the afternoon hawking 他整个下午都在用猎鹰打猎。 Example sentencesExamples - They were also one of the most popular game birds for hawking and Henry VIII passed legislation imposing heavy fines on those caught stealing heron eggs or killing them by any means other than hawking.
- She had a weakness for fine clothes and being a vigorous lady, she enjoyed hawking, shooting the long bow, and making the trip from Theobalds to Westminster, a dozen miles away on horseback.
- Successful hawking becomes routine, and soon one hunt per day is not enough.
2(of a bird or dragonfly) hunt on the wing for food. （鸟，蜻蜓）飞行觅食 swifts hawked low over the water 雨燕在水面上低飞觅食。 with object dragonflies hawk and feed on flies 蜻蜓边飞边猎食飞虫。 Example sentencesExamples - I did see a few egrets in the fields (maybe cattle egrets) and a group of blue-cheeked bee-eaters hawking for insects and perching on powerlines.
- Swifts screaming overhead, hawking for insects in their no-compromise lifestyle.
- Gone were flocks of starlings feeding along the runway; no kestrels hawking on the infields for small mammals; egrets, herons, crows, gulls, and geese all but disappeared.
- For the first time this year there were lots of swifts hawking the riverside fields.
- Fishing bats are large, yellow-orange, and rather pungent creatures that can hawk large flying insects or snag small ocean fish from the surf.
PhrasesMiss nothing of what is going on around one. 明察秋毫 Example sentencesExamples - He had eyes like a hawk and was usually very perceptive.
- I tried to duck away without being seen, but Wright had eyes like a hawk and spotted me.
- Mr. Martin has eyes like a hawk, and sees all.
- Irene has eyes like a hawk and radar ears, nothing slips by her senses.
watch someone like a hawk Keep a vigilant eye on someone, especially to check that they do nothing wrong. 严密监视 Example sentencesExamples - Either way from the moment he arrived back on US soil the FBI watched him like a hawk.
- I watch him like a hawk as he goes back to the car for some tools.
- Now the silent majority will be watching him like a hawk, putting everything he says under the microscope of what is and what isn't acceptable.
- My gaze caught Donovan's, who was watching me like a hawk.
- Fear of losing their child kept them watching Matt like a hawk, staring at his arms for a sign, watching over his medications and sleeping habits.
- He settled back in his chair, but I noticed that he was watching me like a hawk.
- She watches me like a hawk and I'm sure it's her careful eye that has helped me keep so well.
- Bung in the oven and bake for five to ten minutes until golden and crisp (watch them like a hawk as they can burn easily).
- So anyway, I let them walk round, keeping their hands in their pockets to make sure they didn't nick anything and watching them like a hawk.
- Just being here, I've been watching them like a hawk and seeing what they're doing behind the scenes.
OriginOld English hafoc, heafoc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch havik and German Habicht. verbhɔkhôk [with object]Carry around and offer (goods) for sale, typically advertising them by shouting. 叫卖；兜售 street traders were hawking costume jewelry 街头小贩在叫卖不值钱的仿造珠宝。 Example sentencesExamples - We meandered through the men hawking Rolexes and Yankees knit caps, our coats and scarves wrapped tight to combat the brisk wind coming off the water.
- I felt a little uncharitable: maybe they were just honest but hard-up Grimsby trawlermen, reduced to hawking their catch on the streets.
- Young boys hawking phone cards and cigarettes circulate among the tables as regularly as the uniformed waiters.
- I also saw Microsoft tablet PC kiosks in Denver, as well as a booth hawking Intel's new Centrino product.
- Stall owners hawked their wares under canopies of brightly colored cloth.
- She liked to shop, casually wandering throughout the market, occasionally listening to the white clad merchants hawk their wares.
- At Miami Carnival in October, several soca music traders set up stalls at major venues, openly hawking illegally acquired wares and at giveaway prices.
- The streets were crowded with all sorts of creatures hawking their wares and goods.
- Hacks offered guided rides, property owners preserved battle damage for display, and relic hunters hawked everything from bones to bullets.
- Men and women everywhere hawked government-controlled newspapers printed on a grayish, low-grade newsprint no doubt full of comparably dull propaganda.
- McGauley does all the promotion himself, spending as many Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays as he can hawking his books at craft fairs, readings, and bookstore signings.
- While lots of children his age go to school, Rizki is on the street in the hot sun or rain seven days a week hawking papers while dodging the traffic.
- They spend hours browsing such jewellery hawked on pavements.
- As recently as the late 1960s, vendors hawked turtle eggs in the streets of Chennai.
- A bustling area at the crossroads, stands were set up where women and men were hawking things from jewels and fabrics to vegetables and fruits.
- Children hawk small items and souvenirs, sometimes working for the vendors who have stalls in Sangha near the guesthouse.
- Bands played, people danced, and merchants hawked their wares.
- People are renting rooms, running taxis, selling ice-cream out of their front windows and hawking cigars and peanuts in the streets.
- By coincidence, the restaurant was across the street from where Bradbury was hawking newspapers.
- This conference exists so they can hawk their wares to an audience of government officials, in this case mostly mayors.
OriginLate 15th century: probably a back-formation from hawker. verbhɔkhôk [no object]1Clear the throat noisily. 清嗓子 he hawked and spat into the flames 他清了清嗓子，把痰吐到火里。 Example sentencesExamples - Having spent most of last night coughing, hawking and spitting, I really wasn't in the mood for the arrival of Lucy Smooth's workmen this morning.
- You hear everything: coughing, hawking up a loogey, vomiting.
- Their subtle lack of receptiveness is finally made flagrantly obvious when one noisily hawks an enormous loogie and spits it onto the stove, where it sizzles like an oyster at a beachside barbecue.
- Plus, who doesn't like hawking up big gobs of phlegm?
- Misogyny is metal's oldest, most boring trick and no less boring when it's spouted by some guy who sounds like he's trying to hawk up a loogie.
- He had hawked up as much phlegm and mucus as he could muster into that spit and watched it slide nastily down Cassius' face in streaks of yellow and white.
- 1.1hawk something upwith object Bring phlegm up from the throat.
从喉中用力咳痰 Example sentencesExamples - Well most people can hawk it up and spit it out of their mouth… but I cannot do that.
- I was prepared to neatly hawk it up, wipe my mouth, and toss my little bag in the nearest trash can.
- Adults have the type of lung TB that forms abscesses and they produce lots of sputum, lots of AFBS and can hawk it up to be tested.
- I don't know if I swallowed it or hawked it up, but I couldn't get it to go either way for a long time.
- They stood on the dusty grass together, blowing brown slime from their noses and hawking it up from their throats.
- Regarding personal habits, you will meet few people who still manage snot and mucus in the traditional way by hawking it up noisily and then spitting, at least not in the city.
- The whole thing sticks in my throat like a fish bone, and I've got to hawk it up or choke to death on it.
OriginLate 16th century: probably imitative. nounhôkhɔk A plasterer's square board with a handle underneath for carrying plaster or mortar. 镘灰板，灰泥托板 Example sentencesExamples - Moisten your plywood hawk and load it up with mortar. Hold the hawk against the wall and use a long, thin trowel to pack mortar into joints.
- Load some stucco on a hawk and then onto your trowel.
- For large jobs, a hawk is better than a mud pan.
- Load the mortar onto a mortar hawk, then press the filler into the joints with a joint filler.
OriginLate Middle English: of unknown origin. |