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hawker

UK/ˈhɔːkə//ˈhɔkɚ/

hawker noun: a peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.

Noun (1)

hawker (plural hawkers)

  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.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
    • 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.2011 May, Azhar Ghani, “A Recipe for Success: How Singapore Hawker Centres Came to Be”, in IPS Update, Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies
  2. Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
  3. (Singapore) A seller of food in a hawker centre.

Noun (2)

hawker (plural hawkers)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Hawker

Hawker (countable and uncountable, plural Hawkers)

  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.

hawker meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

hawker in Tamil

அங்காடிக்காரர்

hawker in Urdu

پھیری والا, سودے والا

hawker in Malayalam

പക്ഷിവേട്ടക്കാരൻ, കൊണ്ടുനടന്ന് വിൽക്കുന്ന വ്യാപാരി

Examples of hawker in a sentence

  • There is also fear that some hawkers may thaw the fish and sell it as fresh.
  • Only the silver dollar hawkers have kept up their professional spirits.
  • Belanja Eat, launched April 10, is a pay-it-forward initiative that lets you belanja (or treat) someone to a hawker meal.

All 20 example sentences with hawker

Forms of hawker

Noun
pluralhawkers
Proper noun
pluralHawkers

Plural of hawker: hawkers

Origin of hawker

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.

Words formed from hawker

  • hawkery
  • azure hawker
  • blue hawker
  • brown hawker
  • common hawker
  • hawker center
  • hawker centre
  • hawkering
  • hawker stand
  • hawk
  • migrant hawker
  • moorland hawker
  • southern hawker
  • hawkerless

Phrases with hawker

Words that rhyme with hawker

Questions about hawker

What does hawker mean?
Hawker means a peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
What is hawker in Tamil?
Hawker in Tamil is அங்காடிக்காரர். See Hawker meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hawker?
Hawker can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hawker?
Hawker is pronounced /ˈhɔːkə/ (UK).
What is the plural of hawker?
The plural of hawker is hawkers.

Words near hawker in the dictionary

  1. Hawke's Bay
  2. Hawkebela
  3. hawked
  4. Hawken
  5. Hawkens
  6. hawker
  7. hawker centre
  8. hawker centres
  9. Hawkeridge
  10. hawkeries
  11. hawkerless

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hawker (page history and authors); Hawker (page history and authors); hawker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hawker (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hawker (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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