pedlar

ped·lar (p

n. Chiefly British

Variant of peddler.

pedlar esp US, peddler, pedler [ˈpɛdlə]

(Business / Commerce) a person who peddles; hawker

[changed from peder, from ped, pedde basket, of obscure origin]

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Noun

pedlar - someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

hawker, packman, peddler, 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

pedlar see peddler

Translations

pedlar [ˈpedləʳ] N → vendedor(a) m/f ambulante, buhonero(o.f.) m

pedlar

n → Hausierer(in) m(f); (of drugs) → Dealer(in) m(f) (inf)

pedlar [ˈpɛdləʳ] n → venditore/trice ambulante; (of drugs) → spacciatore/trice

pedlar peddle

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cadger
Chapman
cheapjack
crier
hawker
marketer
muffin man
O'Flaherty
packman
peddle
peddler
pitchman
sandboy
seller
trafficker
transmigrante
vender
vendor

A young fellow, a tobacco pedlar by trade, was on his way from Morristown, where he had dealt largely with the Deacon of the Shaker settlement, to the village of Parker's Falls, on Salmon River.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

I suppose I could have passed for a pedlar, but undoubtedly it would have been very embarrassing.

The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context

"Twenty-five francs," smiled the pedlar obsequiously.

Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

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