Jowter

Or, as White also points out, it may derive from the word "jowter," meaning fishmonger, a term that was used in coastal regions of England as early as the 16th century. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Optionally, if you select jowter as the preferred etymology, then is the dish composed of fish purchased from a mounted peddler? ❋ Unknown (2007)

John Thorne in Serious Pig notes that "chowder" may have come from Cornwall where jowter once meant an itinerant fish-hawker. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Milton may ‘bring it off, ’ largely through knowing how to dodge the interval and contrive that it shall at any rate be brief: but, as Bagehot noted, when we come to Tennyson and find Tennyson in Enoch Arden informing us of a fish-jowter, that: —Enoch’s white horse, and Enoch’s ocean-spoil ❋ Unknown (1916)

Not three months back his mother's brother goes dead an 'leaves en a legacy,' pon which, he sets up as jowter -- han'some painted cart, tidy little mare, an 'all complete, besides a bravish sum laid by. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

"Your father was very anxious that I should supplant this young jowter --" ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Your father (who, I must say, honours me with considerable trust, seeing that he knows nothing about me) was good enough to suggest that your affection for this young fish-jowter was a transient fancy -- " ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

"Well, I'll tell 'ee this much -- for you look a very handsome jowter i' that new cart. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

[Kevin's dad] has a very [impressive] Jowter. ❋ Dan A. Root (2006)