hawker

Other forms of hawker

plural

hawkers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hawker

What does hawker mean?

hawker means "someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hawker?

hawker has 2 syllables: haw-ker. The stress falls on "haw". In IPA it is /ˈhɔkɚ/.

What is another word for hawker?

Close synonyms include peddler, pedlar, packman, pitchman, falconer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hawker a common word?

hawker is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.