jowster
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An itinerant seller or hawker, especially of fish.
Example Sentences
- "Presently the jowsters began to bawl out questions to the men who were gathered rather sullenly on deck."
- "The jowsters come down with their carts on to the beach, and hawk them about round the neighborhood—I've seen them twelve a penny; while in the curing-houses they're bulking them and pressing them as if for dear life, to send away to Genoa, Leghorn, and Naples."