"cheapjack" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 43",
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          "ref": "1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, IV.8, Dedalus 2016, p. 303",
          "text": "I was much too timid and didn't have the cheap-jack’s boasting patter."
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        "A peddler, a travelling hawker."
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          "alt": "cognate",
          "word": "chapman"
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