jowtern.
/ˈdʒaʊtə/ dialect.
A fish-hawker (Cornwall, Devonsh.). Also, A hawker or pedlar of any kind.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar
pedder1166
pedlar1307
dustyfoota1400
tranter1500
hawker1510
jagger?1518
jowter1550
pedder-coffec1550
pedderman1552
petty chapman1553
swadder1567
packman1571
merchant1572
swigman1575
chapman?1593
aginator1623
crier1727
duffer1735
Jew pedlar1743
fogger1800
Jew1803
box wallah1826
packie1832
cadger1840
jolter1841
pack-pedlar1859
knocker1934
doorstepper1976
machinga1993
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fish or seafood
oyster-monger1321
rippier1384
fishera1400
pannierman1419
oyster sellera1425
fish-sellerc1440
pessonera1450
fishmonger1464
pikemonger1464
palingman1475
fish-man1540
jowter1550
mussel-mongera1625
flounder-man1700
periwinkler1837
fish-hawker1866
fish-salesman1868
piscitarian1880
fish-cadger1889
cod walloper1915
1550 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. App. QQ. 142 (Cornwall) Item, when the fisher or jowtar bring any fish to the market, that then they sel the same at reasonable prices.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 131v Where plenty of fish is vented to the fish driuers, whom we call Iowters.
a1636 T. Westcote View Devonshire 1630 (1845) v. vii. 378 Fishing is a very commodious employment..where they take sufficient..and send, by divers called jouters, into the inland countries.
1808 Monthly Mag. 2 545 Chowter.
1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 47 The jowsters, or hawkers are miles away.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. xiv. 82 Mr. Treluddra, principal ‘jowder’, i.e. fish-salesman, of Aberalva.
1863 C. A. Johns Home Walks 187 The majority [of the Lobsters] being purchased at a set rate by the ‘jowders’, fish salesmen.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall Chowter, a female fish-vendor. More commonly jouster. Generally, those who go about the country in carts.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Jowder, jowler, a hawker, pedlar.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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