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Peddler vs Jowter - What's the difference?

peddler | jowter |

As nouns the difference between peddler and jowter

is that peddler is an itinerant seller of small goods; a hawker while jowter is (obsolete) a mounted peddler of fish.

peddler

English

Alternative forms

* pedlar (UK )

Noun

(en noun)
  • An itinerant seller of small goods; a hawker.
  • A dealer in illegal drugs.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "peddler") English agent nouns

    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)