‣ spracher noun a hawker; a beggar, a tramp 20-. etymology: unclear; perhaps from Scots sprach ‘a small, active noisy person; a cry, shriek, wail’; or perhaps German sprach ‘to speak’; noun attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; form sprakh attested in Shelta; verb attested by SR and DW; form spracher collected by JS note:
Canadian Paul Pope (2013) cites the form sprach ‘to beg’.