hawked

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of hawk.

   The street vendor hawked souvenirs to tourists outside the museum.

   He hawked newspapers on the same corner all through the winter.

   Note

   One spelling, several verbs behind it. Hawked can mean hunted with a trained hawk, swooped and struck on the wing, peddled goods by calling them out in the street, or cleared the throat noisily and coughed something up. The peddling sense takes an object (hawked souvenirs), while the throat sense works with or without one. As with any regular verb, the same form serves the simple past and follows have or be.

2. 2
   adjective

   Curved like the bill of a hawk; bent or crooked.

   The portrait shows a stern judge with deep-set eyes and a long, hawked nose.

   His nose, narrow and slightly hawked, made him look older than he was.

   Similarhooked, aquiline, beaked, curved

   Oppositestraight, snub

   Note

   The bird's bill, turned into a description of shape. Because it is spelled exactly like the past tense of the verb, context does the sorting: a hawked nose is curved, while hawked goods were sold in the street. It is gradable, comparing with more hawked and most hawked rather than an -er ending, and it softens naturally with slightly.

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