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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”).
peddler (plural peddlers)
- An itinerant seller of small goods.
- Synonyms: hawker, (obsolete) chapman, huckster, monger, colporteur, solicitor
- A drug dealer.
1953, Tom Lehrer, “The Old Dope Peddler”, in Songs by Tom Lehrer, Pantheon, published 1981, page 18:Here's a cure for all your troubles
Here's an end to all distress
It's the old dope peddler
With his powdered happiness
- (figurative) A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.
itinerant seller of small goods
- Arabic: جَوَّال (ar) m (jawwāl), بَائِع مُتَجَوِّل (bāʔiʕ mutajawwil)
- Armenian: չարչի (hy) (čʻarčʻi)
- Azerbaijani: çərçi
- Belarusian: карабе́йнік m (karabjéjnik), каро́бачнік m (karóbačnik), піліпо́н m (pilipón), афе́ня m (afjénja), разно́счык m (raznósčyk)
- Bulgarian: амбулантен търговец m (ambulanten tǎrgovec)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 小販／小贩 (zh) (xiǎofàn)
- Dutch: marskramer (nl) m, venter (nl) m
- Esperanto: kolportisto
- Finnish: kulkukauppias (fi), kaupustelija (fi)
- French: colporteur (fr) m, marchand ambulant m
- Galician: chioleiro m, mercachifre m, bofón m, bufariñeiro m
- German: Hausierer (de) m, Krämer (de) m, Höker m
- Greek: γυρολόγος (el) m (gyrológos)
- Ancient: μεταβολεύς m (metaboleús)
- Hungarian: házaló (hu), ügynök (hu), vigéc (hu)
- Irish: peidléir m, hácaeir m, joltaeir m, mangaire m, fear cairte m
- Italian: padellaio m, vucumprà (derogative)
- Japanese: 鬻人 (hisakihito), 鬻人 (hisagibito), 鬻女 (hisakime), 鬻女 (hisagime)
- Kumyk: элтивчю (eltiwçü), табушдурувчу (tabuşduruwçu)
- Latin: circulātor m, circulātrix f
- Macedonian: праматар m (pramatar)
- Ngazidja Comorian: mcuuzi class 1/2
- Norman: chinneux m, colporteux m, hotteux m
- Occitan: colejaire m, mercadieiron m
- Ottoman Turkish: بوغچهجی (boğçacı), اسكیجی (eskici), قولتقجی (koltukcu)
- Polish: domokrążca (pl) m
- Portuguese: camelô (pt) m or f, ambulante (pt) m or f, vendedor ambulante m, mascate (pt) m, vendilhão m, prestamista
- Romanian: negustor ambulant m, telal (ro) m, marchitan (ro) m, tolbaș (ro) m, coropcar (ro) m
- Russian: коробе́йник (ru) m (korobéjnik), разно́счик (ru) m (raznósčik), офе́ня (ru) m (ofénja), лото́чник (ru) m (lotóčnik)
- Scottish Gaelic: ceannaiche-siubhail m
- Spanish: buhonero (es) m, vendedor ambulante (es) m, mantero (derogative), topmantero (derogative)
- Swedish: krämare (sv) c, nasare (sv) c, hälare (sv) c (stolen goods), säljare (sv) c, månglare (sv) c, handlande (sv) c, handelsresande c, knalle (sv) c, hökare (sv) c
- Turkish: çerçi (tr)
- Ukrainian: коробе́йник (uk) m (korobéjnyk), офе́ня m (ofénja), розно́шувач m (roznóšuvač)
- Welsh: pedler m, pacmon m
- Yiddish: פּעדלער m (pedler)
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fake-news disseminator; conspiracy-theory propagator
