hawker

Collocations

3

VERB + HAWKER

fish

HAWKER + NOUN

allerfoot

PREP.

from

Definitions

noun

1

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.

2

Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.

3

A seller of food in a hawker centre.

noun

1

Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.

name

1

A surname originating as an occupation.

2

A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after Charles Hawker.

3

A town in Flinders Ranges council area, South Australia, named after George Charles Hawker.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the spo

falconer

noun — someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the stree

peddler
pedlar
packman
pitchman

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

2

01

The other [witness] was one Sim Doolittle, the fish hawker from Allerfoot, jogging home in his fish cart from Gledsmuir fair.

Wiktionary

02

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 hawker