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Meanings of cheap-jack in English

Catalan
quincallaire

A seller of shoddy goods.

        quincallaire
        Usage of cheap-jack in English
        1
        Its beat had led too often to the trickster's booth, to the cheap-jack's rostrum.
        All Roads Lead to Calvary
        2
        The Midland, for Constance, was not a trading concern, but something between a cheap-jack and a circus.
        The Old Wives' Tale
        3
        Anyhow, he did not talk like a cheap-jack at a stall; but rather like a teacher in an infant school.
        The New Jerusalem
        4
        A set of fish-jobbers, and men with barrows, and cheap-jacks from up the country.
        Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War
        5
        Here the glib politician crying his legislative panaceas, and here the peripatetic Cheap-Jack holding aloft his quack cures for human ills.
        The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
        Translations for cheap-jack