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語源 1

Probably Borrowed from Low German or Dutch, from Middle Low German hoker and ultimately from the root of huckster.

名詞

hawker (plural hawkers)

1. A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

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

   • 2011 May, Azhar Ghani, “A Recipe for Success: How Singapore Hawker Centres Came to Be”, in IPS Update‎, Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies:

     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. (Singapore) A seller of food in a hawker centre.

使用する際の注意点

• In the 19th century, hawker referred specifically to a itinerant merchant, while peddler/pedlar referred to a stationary merchant. This distinction is no longer upheld.

派生語

Further reading

• hawker (trade) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hawker (dragonfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

Inherited from 中期英語 hawkere, from 古期英語 hafocere, hafecere; by surface analysis, hawk +‎ -er.

名詞

hawker (plural hawkers)

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

派生語

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