cheapjack

Definitions

A peddler, a travelling hawker.

Equivalents

Examples

“"Why," rejoined Mrs Cadwallader, with a sharper note⟳, "you don't mean⟳ to say⟳ that you would like⟳ him to turn⟳ public man in that way—making a sort⟳ of political Cheap Jack of himself?"”

“On the day after the riot he came upon a score⟳ of people collected round a Cheap Jack in the market.”

“My mother and father was standing against the railings by the market, looking over at the fire-swallower and the cheap-jack and the Salvation Army down below; and the German Band was playing round the corner of the Commercial Arcade.”

“I was much too timid and didn't have⟳ the cheap-jack’s boasting patter.”

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