jowter
Etymology
noun
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(archaic) A buyer and seller of fish, usually operating from a cart or a van. 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. 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 68
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