peddler

especially British, ped·lar,

[ped-ler]

noun

1. a person who sells from door to door or in the street.

2. a person who tries to promote some cause, candidate, viewpoint, etc.

peddler

/ ˈpɛdlə /

noun

1. a person who sells illegal drugs, esp narcotics

2. the usual US spelling of pedlar

Word History and Origins

Origin of peddler¹

1350–1400; Middle English pedlere, unexplained variant of peder, derivative of ped ( de ) basket

Example Sentences

Though Lincoln quickly overruled the order as overbroad, he did not, according to Ms. Nadell, object in principle “to expelling ‘traitors and Jew peddlers.’”

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"Unlike he peddlers of easy answers, Welsh Labour doesn't just talk, we deliver."

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Iris is visibly insecure about Isaac’s conversations with other women, including the strawberry peddler who coos that he has “soft hands,” and his mother, who dials him up to crack inside jokes.

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It is becoming plain that Kennedy is turning the department from a beacon of science-based medicine and public health into a hive of conspiracy theorists and, as Marks wrote, peddlers of “misinformation and lies.”

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He grew up believing his father was a poor street peddler.

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Related Words

• vendor