Other forms: peddlers
A peddler is a trader who travels about selling small goods. A travelling peddler, the peddler's pack, peddlers at the door.
The trade fed villages that had no shops, and the pack on the back is the standard image. The British spelling pedlar is also used. Figuratively somebody is a peddler of rumours or of misinformation, and there the word is always an accusation.
1nounpeddlerA trader who travels about selling small goods.
“A peddler went from village to village selling needles, ribbons and buttons.”
peddler is a trader.
Also accepted in games: pedlar
Middle English pedlere, of unknown origin, perhaps from a word for a basket or pannier.
Middle English
pedlere
English, today
peddler
From Middle English pedlere, pedlare, pedeler, alteration of Middle English peddere (“hawker, peddler”), of unknown origin. Compare Medieval Latin pedārius, from Latin pedāre (“to furnish with feet; prop up”).
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