hawker
Cries out wares
A hawker is someone who sells goods by calling out in public places—on streets, at markets, or door to door.
The word suggests aggressive promotion: Street hawkers pushed knockoff watches on tourists.
To hawk is to sell this way, or more broadly, to promote persistently: hawking his new book on every talk show.
A different hawker is someone who hunts with trained hawks, though this sense is rare.
Enclosed compartment or delay
- boothTemporary enclosed compartment
- peddlerRoving small-goods merchant
- traderOne who transacts commercially
- bazaarOpen-air merchant district
marketplace · wares · goods · merchandise · shopkeeper · cart · curbside · pitch
Roving small-goods merchant
- wandererRootless, roving person
- travelerOne who journeys
- rovingMoving from place to place
- itinerantMoving for work
peripatetic · ambulant · door-to-door · canvasser · journeyman · wayfarer · mobile · transient
Show entrance promoter
- crierPublic announcement maker
- shoutingVocally projecting loudly
- yellingVocalization at maximum volume
- bellowingLoud, deep shouting
hoarse · vociferous · stentorian · megaphone · touting · calling · pitching · hollering
stall
Enclosed compartment or delay
- boothTemporary enclosed compartment
- peddlerRoving small-goods merchant
- traderOne who transacts commercially
bazaar · marketplace · wares · goods · merchandise · shopkeeper · cart · curbside · pitch · tout
peddler
Roving small-goods merchant
itinerant · peripatetic · ambulant · door-to-door · canvasser · journeyman · wayfarer · mobile · transient · circuit
barker
Show entrance promoter
- crierPublic announcement maker
- shoutingVocally projecting loudly
- yellingVocalization at maximum volume
bellowing · hoarse · vociferous · stentorian · megaphone · touting · calling · pitching · hollering · proclaiming
falconry
Training raptors to hunt
hunting · jesses · hood · lure · stooping · talons · perch · mews · quarry · falconer
darner
Fabric-hole fixer
dragonfly · darter · percher · saddlebag · emerald · pennant · dasher · pintail · insect · wingspan
- stadium vendorshot dog vendor, peanut vendor, beer vendor, popcorn vendor, souvenir vendor
- traderstrader, merchant, retailer, vendor, dealer
- trade & commercetrade, exports, imports, tariffs, merchant
- merchantstraders, merchant, merchants, retailers, vendors
- mobile foodfood truck, food cart, street food, food stand, hot dog cart
- persuaderspersuader, orator, orators, public speaker, speechmaker
hawkershopkeeper
Small store manager
storekeeper · retailer · merchant · boutique owner · proprietor
- like a hawkWith keen observation
- watch like a hawkObserve with intense attention
- watching like a hawkMonitoring with fierce attention
- watched like a hawkMonitored with intense vigilance
- watches like a hawkMonitors with intense attention
- war hawkProponent of military action
hawk, hawked, hawking, hawkish, hawklike, hawkers, hawkishness