Library / English Dictionary

PEDLAR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

Synonyms:

hawker; packman; peddler; pedlar; pitchman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pedlar" is a kind of...):

marketer; seller; trafficker; vender; vendor (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pedlar"):

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')

transmigrante (a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell)

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