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name
A surname originating as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after Charles Hawker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A town in Flinders Ranges council area, South Australia, named after George Charles Hawker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A seller of food in a hawker centre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Singapore
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noun
Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: falconer
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Broader terms: hunter, huntsman
noun
someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: peddler, pedlar, packman, pitchman
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Broader terms: seller, marketer, vender, vendor, trafficker
Narrower terms: chapman, cheapjack, crier, muffin man, sandboy, transmigrante
History
Probably Borrowed from Low German or Dutch, from Middle Low German hoker and ultimately from the root of huckster.
Inherited from Middle English hawkere, from Old English hafocere, hafecere; by surface analysis, hawk + -er.
Across languages
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
