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To: EnigmaticAnomaly
"Yesterday while viewing a HAWK flying overhead, I determined I should HOCK some of my unnecessary trinkets from my basement."

If you decided to "hock" your trinkets at a pawn shop you would be correct.

However it is perfectly correct to say that someone on TV selling products is "hawking" them.

(*Sigh* So few understand how to use the English language...")

14 posted on 03/06/2015 6:03:21 AM PST by shibumi ("Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way")
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To: shibumi
hawk2

hôk

verb: hawk; 3rd person present: hawks; past tense: hawked; past participle: hawked; gerund or present participle: hawking

carry around and offer (goods) for sale, typically advertising them by shouting.

"street traders were hawking costume jewelry"

synonyms: peddle, sell, tout, vend, trade in, traffic in, push

"hawking his wares on the street"

Origin

late 15th century: back-formation from hawker1.

17 posted on 03/06/2015 6:08:27 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: shibumi

*grin*


32 posted on 03/06/2015 8:38:52 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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