[
US
/ˈhɔkɝ/
]
[ UK /hˈɔːkɐ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɔːkɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
- someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
How To Use hawker In A Sentence
- The hawkers, or dragon nymphs are longer and thinner and they patrol up and down looking out for prey on which to swoop.
- Abraham Granish, Winehouse's great-great grandfather, was a Russian immigrant described as a "hawker", selling goods door-to-door, who lived in the Spitalfields area of the capital. News24
- The municipal officer demands a bribe from a hawker; the bureaucrat refuses to register a land title or a marriage; the traffic cop beats the rickshaw-driver who can't afford to pay his weekly installment, known as hafta. India's Middle Class Hungers for Undemocratic Change
- Unlike in the case of established shops, these hawkers give them an option for bargaining too.
- Almost from the moment you step off the plane, you will be accosted by touts, hawkers and rogues.
- For diners who simply cannot get enough of Penang's famed hawker delights, check out the nasi pattaya, char koay teow, teo chew mee sua and satay. Surf while dining in style
- Gradually market traders and hawkers moved in until eventually the tunnel became a seedy backwater.
- Eat sparingly and avoid food sold by hawkers at stations. Times, Sunday Times
- The word, which also occurs in German as Krämer, doesn't show up in English, but it does in Scots as cramer 'one who sells goods at a stall or booth; also a pedlar or hawker'; Scots also has the base noun crame 'booth or stall where goods are sold in a market or fair.' Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
- Hawker has always enjoyed the great outdoors. Times, Sunday Times