peddler

ped·dler  (pdlr)

n.

One who travels about selling wares for a living.

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[Middle English pedlere, probably alteration of peddere, from Medieval Latin pedrius, crosier bearer, from Latin ps, ped-, foot; see pedi-.]

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peddler [ˈpɛdlə]

n

1. (Law / Recreational Drugs) a person who sells illegal drugs, esp narcotics

2. (Business / Commerce) the usual US spelling of pedlar

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	peddler - someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) hawker, packman, pedlar, pitchman chapman - archaic term for an itinerant peddler cheapjack - a peddler of inferior goods crier - a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells muffin man - formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins sandboy - a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy' marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor - someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money transmigrante - a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell
	2.	peddler - an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, pusher criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime dealer - a seller of illicit goods; "a dealer in stolen goods"

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peddler pedlar

noun seller, vendor, hawker, duffer (dialect), huckster, door-to-door salesman, cheap-jack (informal), colporteur drug peddlers LA's ban on sidewalk peddlers

Translations

peddler [ˈpɛdlə^r] n

(= door-to-door salesman) → colporteur m

[rumours, information] → colporteur/euse m/f