pedlar
noun/ˈpedlə(r)/
/ˈpedlər/
(British English) (North American English peddler)
- a person who in the past travelled from place to place trying to sell small objects
- They were essentially a poor community of cattle traders and pedlars.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPedlar is used after these nouns:- dope
- street
Word OriginMiddle English: perhaps an alteration of synonymous dialect pedder, apparently from dialect ped ‘pannier’.Definitions on the go
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