druggist

[ druhg-ist ]

noun

1. a person who compounds or prepares drugs drug according to medical prescriptions; apothecary; pharmacist; dispensing chemist.
2. the owner or operator of a drugstore.

druggist

/ ˈdrʌɡɪst /

noun

1. a person qualified to prepare and dispense drugs Also calledpharmacist

Word History and Origins

Origin of druggist¹

1605–15; drug ¹ + -ist; compare French droguiste

Example Sentences

“The presence of these chemicals all points to collaboration between the violin makers and the local drugstore and druggist,” Nagyvary said in a press release.

From Popular-Science

Like Amazon today, A&P used its massive purchasing power to squeeze and manipulate the business practices of tens of thousands of farmers, druggists, wholesalers and vendors of every sort.

From Washington Post

A druggist, therefore, who affixes a wrong label to a bottle of medicine and thereby injures a person who uses it is responsible.

From Project Gutenberg

Get, at a druggist's, half an ounce of each of these articles, and have them mixed and pounded together in a mortar.

From Project Gutenberg

Sometimes a druggist will remember selling some poison to kill a dog or as an insecticide.

From Project Gutenberg

A certain druggist utilized old electric bulbs for displaying dye colors.

From Project Gutenberg

The baker and his wife, the grocer, the—the—the—watchmaker—the—shoemaker—the—the druggist with Mrs. Druggist.

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