cheapjack
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A peddler, a travelling hawker.
adj
Example Sentences
- ""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."
- "Ten minutes after the rise of the curtain on the fourth act I was in the dressing-room, presenting the maid with a gold locket which I had bought from a cheapjack’s barrow for five and twenty francs—almost the last of the fifty which I had received from M. Duval on account."
- "Relieving office here. Good biz for cheapjacks, organs. What do ye lack?"
- "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."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
cheapjacks (plural)
cheap-jack (alternative)
Cheap Jack (alternative)
more cheapjack (comparative)
most cheapjack (superlative)