name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Action of the verb to hawk.

   "Boats shuttled to and fro, and the hawkings and peddlings of all sorts of wares helped to create an amazing scene of activity and prosperity."

2. 2
   the act of selling goods for a living wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of hawk form-of, gerund, participle, present

Proper Noun

1. 1
   An English surname originating as a patronymic, variant of Hawkins.

Synonyms

All synonyms

blurredbreathychasechevychivychoked

Example

More examples

"Dr. Hawking had almost finished writing a book."

Etymology

Variant of Hawkin

Related phrases

Bekenstein-Hawking entropyBekenstein-Hawking formulaGibbons-Hawking-York boundary termHartle-Hawking stateHawking IndexHawking energyHawking massHawking radiationHawking's paradoxHawking's theoremHawking-Zel'dovich radiationThorne-Hawking-Preskill bet

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