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Attention-getting street merchant
Answer for the clue "Attention-getting street merchant ", 6 letters:
roarer
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice [syn: bawler , bellower , screamer , screecher , shouter , yeller ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who roars. 2 (context archaic English) One of a group of young men who would carouse in taverns, then pick brawls on the street for entertainment.
Usage examples of roarer.
After some very interesting exchanges of reminiscences about incurable millers, roarers, lungers, half-bred blood-cattle, gingers, and slugs, which led inevitably to still more interesting stories of the chase, during the course of which both gentlemen found themselves perfectly in accord in their contempt of such ignoble persons as roadsters and skirters, and their conviction that the soundest of all maxims was, Get over the ground if it breaks your neck, formality was at an end between them, and his lordship was not only begging Bertram to call him Chuffy, as everyone else did, but promising to show him some of the rarer sights in town.
From every side Worlington Dodds heard of yearlings, of windgalls, of roarers, of spavins, of cribsuckers, of a hundred other terms which were as unintelligible to him as his own Stock Exchange jargon would have been to the company.
As thou dost purpose to live, when thou hast retired thyself to some such place, where neither roarer nor harlot is: so mayest thou here.
From every side Worlington Dodds heard of yearlings, of windgalls, of roarers, of spavins, of cribsuckers, of a hundred other terms which were as unintelligible to him as his own Stock Exchange jargon would have been to the company.