barra boy
Geordie (Newcastle/Northeast England) dialect for a man who works a market stall — a market trader who pushes or tends a barrow (stall).
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Geordie (Newcastle/Northeast England) dialect for a man who works a market stall — a market trader who pushes or tends a barrow (stall). In the Northeast's strong outdoor market culture, barra boys were a fixture of city centres and market towns, shouting out their wares with characteristic patter and banter. The term carries warm, working-class associations with street commerce, hustle, and the lively social atmosphere of British markets. It can also be used nostalgically to describe a certain type of straight-talking, entrepreneurial working man.
His dad was a barra boy on the Grainger Market for thirty years, sold everything from veg to watches.
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(Geordie) A man who works on market stalls.
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