Reverse Dictionary: MARKET

ADJECTIVES
► BODEABLE marketable → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► VENDIBLE capable of being sold; saleable, marketable → 1382

NOUNS
► CRAME a booth or stall where goods are sold in a market or fair → 1477 Sc.
► CROSS a marketplace, a market → 1577
► DOOGHENO HIT a good or profitable market → M19 sl.
► FLYPITCH an area for unlicensed stalls at markets → colloq.
► GUNGE a market → 1776
► HIGH MARKET the time when the market is busiest → 1660 obs.
► INKET a market → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MARKET QUALITY the status of being a market town → 1745 obs.
► MARKET SET a marketplace; an open space in a town where a market is or was formerly held → 1552 obs.
► MARKETSTEAD a market-place → 1386 arch.
► OFF-GATE an outlet, market, or means of sale → 1876 Sc.
► PADDY’S MARKET any kind of cheap market → L19 Aust. sl.
► SALE DAY a day fixed for the buying, selling, or bartering of goods; a market day → 1840 Amer. dial.
► SCALES a fish-market → 1871 Eng. dial.
► SHAMBLES a place, esp. a row of covered stalls, for the sale of meat or fish; a meat market; generally, a market, a row of shops, etc. → LME
► TIGHT-SHOE DAY Saturday; market day → 1950 Amer. dial.
► VENT a place where goods are or may be sold; a market, mart → 1580 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► MARKET BEATER a person who loiters around a market, a vagrant (probably with implication of quarrelsomeness) → c1405 obs.
► MARKET-DAME a woman who works at a market; in early use with connotations of promiscuity) → 1706 derogatory
► MARKET DASHER a person who loiters around a market, a vagrant (probably with implication of quarrelsomeness) → 1440 obs.
► MARKET-LOOKER an official who inspects the quality of goods at a market → 1563
► MARKET MAMMY a woman stallholder → 1962 colloq., chiefly West African usage, often derogatory
► MARKET RUNNER a person who loiters around a market, a vagrant (probably with implication of quarrelsomeness) → c1475 obs.
► MESSER one who puts a stall-holder to a great deal of trouble without buying anything → c1920 Brit. market-traders’ usage
► REGRATER one who buys butter, fruit, etc. from the farmers to sell in the market → 1836 Eng. dial.

VERBS
► NUNDINATE to buy and sell at fairs or markets → 1623 obs.