A dialect form of 'stallenger' or 'stallinger', referring to a market trader who rented a stall.
A dialect form of 'stallenger' or 'stallinger', referring to a market trader who rented a stall. In some English dialect records the word also applied to an itinerant huckster who set up without a proper licence, making it slightly pejorative — a borderline legitimate pedlar.
Every Friday the square filled with stallingers selling everything from ribbons to live chickens.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A stallkeeper.