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Sense: 1
Date: 1500-1600
Origin: hawker
Sense: 2
Date: 1500-1600
Origin: Probably from the sound

hawk

2 verb
     
hawk2
1 [transitive] to try to sell goods, usually by going from place to place and trying to persuade people to buy them
2 [intransitive and transitive]HBH to cough up phlegm
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