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Jowter vs Sowter - What's the difference?

jowter | sowter |

As nouns the difference between jowter and sowter

is that jowter is a mounted peddler of fish while sowter is obsolete form of souter.

jowter

English

Alternative forms

* jouster

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A mounted peddler of fish.
    • (Carew)
  • (archaic) A buyer and seller of fish.
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.68:
    • 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.
    (Webster 1913)

    sowter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913) ----