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noun ˈhɔːkəˈhɔkər A person who travels about selling goods, typically advertising them by shouting. 沿街叫卖的流动小贩 hawkers and costermongers pushed their little handcarts, crying ‘Bread!’, ‘Fish!’ and ‘Meat pies!’ Example sentencesExamples - The hawkers sell all and sundry: from handkerchiefs to electronic goods.
- Mehmood, their father, is a hawker selling odd food items.
- At night, it turns into a massive open air cafe area, with dozens of food hawkers selling a variety of food, from the traditional to the modern.
- Hawkers came to sell their wares in small row boats near the cruise boats.
- One day soon hawkers will be selling miniature plastic replicas outside.
- City authorities will plan to wipe out the sight of beggars and hawkers selling flowers or newspapers at intersections.
- Shopfronts and stalls were open, with hawkers shouting and displaying their wares for the crowds.
- Nearly 25 per cent of the collected waste was sold to hawkers.
- The city of Johannesburg is developing a programme to assist hawkers who sell food on the streets of the city.
- Gradually market traders and hawkers moved in until eventually the tunnel became a seedy backwater.
- A wide range of commodities ranging from fruits to light bulbs are sold by enterprising hawkers.
- At the resorts, hawkers sell designer replicas and reproductions to a ready eastern European market, as well as the growing number of Germans and British visitors.
- The law forbids it, but these street hawkers slaughter animals and sell the meat to the poor.
- The Municipality is not happy with hawkers who sell on street corners in the industrial area.
- Tickets were sold in advance for $45, but street hawkers were selling them for about $200.
- At the entrances to subway stations, hawkers who used to sell city maps have shifted their focus to the rain business.
- To meet the family's financial needs, his 19 year-old son quit school and now works as a hawker selling vegetables.
- Street corners are dotted with hawkers selling their pies hot from portable ovens.
- The crowd swelled as the day progressed, to the great pleasure of hawkers selling eatables and tea.
- On the way out of the chamber afterwards several different party journals were being sold by hawkers.
Synonyms trader, seller, dealer, purveyor, vendor, tout, barrow boy, door-to-door salesman, travelling salesman, pedlar West Indian higgler informal pusher archaic chapman, packman rare huckster, crier, colporteur
OriginEarly 16th century: probably from Low German or Dutch and related to huckster. Rhymescaulker (US calker), corker, Lorca, Majorca, Minorca, orca, porker, squawker, stalker, talker, walker, yorker noun ˈhɔːkəˈhɔkər 2A slender-bodied dragonfly that remains airborne for long periods, typically patrolling a particular stretch of water. 蜻蜓 Aeshnidae, Gomphidae, and other families, order Odonata: several genera Example sentencesExamples - The hawkers, or dragon nymphs, are longer and thinner and they patrol up and down looking out for prey on which to swoop.
OriginOld English hafocere, from hafoc 'hawk'. nounˈhôkərˈhɔkər A person who travels around selling goods, typically advertising them by shouting. 沿街叫卖的流动小贩 hawkers pushed their little handcarts, crying “Bread!”, “Fish!” and “Meat pies!” Example sentencesExamples - Street corners are dotted with hawkers selling their pies hot from portable ovens.
- At night, it turns into a massive open air cafe area, with dozens of food hawkers selling a variety of food, from the traditional to the modern.
- At the entrances to subway stations, hawkers who used to sell city maps have shifted their focus to the rain business.
- Mehmood, their father, is a hawker selling odd food items.
- The Municipality is not happy with hawkers who sell on street corners in the industrial area.
- The city of Johannesburg is developing a programme to assist hawkers who sell food on the streets of the city.
- Tickets were sold in advance for $45, but street hawkers were selling them for about $200.
- Hawkers came to sell their wares in small row boats near the cruise boats.
- Gradually market traders and hawkers moved in until eventually the tunnel became a seedy backwater.
- A wide range of commodities ranging from fruits to light bulbs are sold by enterprising hawkers.
- The crowd swelled as the day progressed, to the great pleasure of hawkers selling eatables and tea.
- Nearly 25 per cent of the collected waste was sold to hawkers.
- At the resorts, hawkers sell designer replicas and reproductions to a ready eastern European market, as well as the growing number of Germans and British visitors.
- Shopfronts and stalls were open, with hawkers shouting and displaying their wares for the crowds.
- On the way out of the chamber afterwards several different party journals were being sold by hawkers.
- City authorities will plan to wipe out the sight of beggars and hawkers selling flowers or newspapers at intersections.
- To meet the family's financial needs, his 19 year-old son quit school and now works as a hawker selling vegetables.
- The law forbids it, but these street hawkers slaughter animals and sell the meat to the poor.
- The hawkers sell all and sundry: from handkerchiefs to electronic goods.
- One day soon hawkers will be selling miniature plastic replicas outside.
Synonyms trader, seller, dealer, purveyor, vendor, tout, barrow boy, door-to-door salesman, travelling salesman, pedlar
OriginEarly 16th century: probably from Low German or Dutch and related to huckster. OriginOld English hafocere, from hafoc ‘hawk’. |