peddler
Plural: peddlers
Noun
- A person who sells goods, usually door-to-door or in the street.
- someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
- an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs
- An itinerant seller of small goods.
- A drug dealer.
- A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.
Examples
- He was a peddler of clever words, always finding a way to sell his tiles for maximum points.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English pedlere, pedlare, pedeler, alteration of Middle English peddere (“hawker, peddler”), of uncertain origin. Compare Medieval Latin pedārius, from Latin pedāre (“to furnish with feet; prop up”).
Synonyms
drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, hawker, packman, pedlar, pitchman, pusher, chapman, colporteur, huckster, monger, solicitor
Scrabble Score: 11
peddler: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpeddler: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
peddler: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary