cheapjack
cheapjack noun: a peddler, a travelling hawker.
Noun
cheapjack (plural cheapjacks)
- A peddler, a travelling hawker.
- "Why," rejoined Mrs Cadwallader, with a sharper note, "you don't mean to say that you would like him to turn public man in that way—making a sort of political Cheap Jack of himself?"1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VI, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 93
- On the day after the riot he came upon a score of people collected round a Cheap Jack in the market.1919, Stanley J. Weyman, “XXXVI The Riddsley Election”, in The Great House
- Synonyms:
- chapman, cheap John
Adjective
cheapjack (comparative more cheapjack, superlative most cheapjack)
- shabby
- It was a drab, cheapjack little area, unambiguously removed from the public, and yet I had come to love it in a way I never could the rest of the monstruous edifice.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 276
Synonyms of cheapjack
Forms of cheapjack
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cheapjacks |
| alternative form | cheap-jack |
| alternative form | Cheap Jack |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more cheapjack |
| superlative | most cheapjack |
Origin of cheapjack
From cheap + Jack.
Questions about cheapjack
- What does cheapjack mean?
- Cheapjack means a peddler, a travelling hawker.
- What part of speech is cheapjack?
- Cheapjack can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of cheapjack?
- The plural of cheapjack is cheapjacks.
Words near cheapjack in the dictionary
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