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hernesheir commented on the word hawking basket
Also hawking-basket. A basket formerly used by gypsies and traveling people in the British isles and Europe. The women carried it door to filled with small items to hawk or trade.
September 28, 2009
sionnach commented on the word hawking basket
not to be confused with a spittoon, or hocking basket. See hock a loogy.
September 28, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word hawking basket
We don't hawk loogies here, as you well know.
But Wordies sometimes do Haken a tsheinik - Yiddish = "Boring speech, long-winded and annoying conversation; talking for the sake of talking (Lit., To bang on the tea-kettle)"
September 28, 2009