jowster

English

Noun

jowster (plural jowsters)

1. (Cornwall, historical) An itinerant seller or hawker, especially of fish.
   • 1891, Joseph Henry Pearce, Inconsequent Lives, page 33:

     Presently the jowsters began to bawl out questions to the men who were gathered rather sullenly on deck.

   • 1893, Grant Allen, Michael's Crag:

     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.