jowter

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/ˈd͡ʒaʊtə(ɹ)/

noun

A buyer and seller of fish, usually operating from a cart or a van.

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Meanings

jowter1

nounjowter (plural jowters)

plural jowters · alternative jouster

  1. archaicA buyer and seller of fish, usually operating from a cart or a van.

    fish drivers , whom we call jowters

    1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC
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    He lifted out the catfish and selected a small carp. They watched the needle swing. The old jowter twisted up the apron in his hands. Two and a half, he said.

    1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 68

jowter2

verbjowter (third-person singular simple present jowters, present participle jowtering, simple past and past participle jowtered)

present singular third person jowters · participle present jowtering · participle past jowtered · past jowtered

  1. UKdialectalTo grumble, growl, snarl.

Origin

jowter · noun

Of unknown origin. The alternative form jouster shows addition of the -ster suffix. Compare later jolter (“hawker, peddlar”).

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jowter · verb

Variant of chowter.

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