Etymology

hawker

H4A1W4K5E1R1

Today it means: A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods. Full definition →

Middle Low German hoker
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

hawker · noun1

  1. Middle Low German · derived fromhoker
  2. English todayhawker

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

hawker · noun2

  1. Old English · inherited fromhafocere
  2. Middle English · inherited fromhawkere
  3. English todayhawker

Inherited from Middle English hawkere, from Old English hafocere, hafecere; by surface analysis, hawk + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.