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Definition: Peddler |
PeddlerNoun1. Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals). 2. An unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "peddler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references) |
Etymology: Peddler \Ped"dler\, noun. [from Old English expression pedlere, pedlare, also peddare, peoddare, from Old English ped basket, of unknown origin.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Sells merchandise or service, such as books, magazines, notions, brushes, and cosmetics, going from door to door without making appointments or following leads from management, other workers, or from listings in city and telephone directories: Displays sample products, explains desirable qualities of products, and leaves samples, or distributes advertising literature explaining service or products. Writes and submits orders to company. Delivers merchandise, collects money, and makes change. May contact individuals previously solicited in person, by telephone, or by mail to close sale. May travel from one area to another, or be assigned to specified territory. (references) |
| Sells refreshments, programs, novelties, or cushions at sports events, parades, or other entertainments: Circulates among patrons or spectators, calling out items for sale. Hands, passes, or throws item to purchaser, receives payment, and makes change as required. Checks out items to replenish stock and turns in monies from sales. (references) | |
| Sells merchandise, such as fruit, vegetables, flowers, or ice cream, on streets or from door to door, usually using basket, pushcart, or truck to carry products. May attract attention by playing chimes or chanting song. May be designated according to product sold as Ice-Cream Vendor (retail trade); Vegetable Vendor (retail trade). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PeddlerSynonyms: drug dealer (n), drug peddler (n), drug trafficker (n), hawker (n), packman (n), pedlar (n), pitchman (n), pusher (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Peddler |
| English words defined with "peddler": Chapman ♦ Dudder ♦ Jowter ♦ muffin man ♦ Patterer, Peddlery, Pedler ♦ sandboy ♦ Tranter. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "peddler": Tranter. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Let me tell you, I'm really proud of my smut peddler Dad. (Random Acts of Violence; writing credit: Drew Bell; Jefferson Langley) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Smut Peddler (1965) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Peddler with cart, fashionable woman, military man and servant with perambulator, and man with pipe. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Uncle Sam beating off "dope peddler", "bandit", and "white slaver" vultures from brood of the vulture, "prohibition". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Water peddler with loaded burro leaving fountain, Guadlajara [sic], Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Occupational portrait of a peddler, full-length, standing, facing front, with two bags held at his sides by a harness, neck brace visible between legs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Honey peddler reading newspaper in market, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Potato peddler and newsboy, market, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Carrot peddler, market, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Peddler selling patent medicines to farmers outside warehouse on opening day of tobacco market in Mebane, North Carolina where many Caswell County farmers sell their tobacco at auction. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The vegetable peddler, Chinatown, San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Peddler with basket. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Peddler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peddler" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "peddler": drug peddler ♦ influence peddler ♦ peddler of gossip. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "peddler": dope-peddler, drug-peddler, pill-peddler, smut-peddler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "peddler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pramatar (huckster, pedlar), shitës shetitës (tout), çikërrimtar (haberdasher, huckster, pedlar). (various references) | |
Arabic | بائع متجول (crier, drummer, duffer, hawker, huckster, pedlar, purveyor, street hawker, tout), بائع صحف متجول (pedlar). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | амбулантен търговец (bagman, cheap jack, packman, pedlar, peripatetic, pushcart man, vender, vendor). (various references) | |
Chinese | 小販 , 小贩 (pedlar, Pedler). (various references) | |
Czech | poulièní prodavaè (pedlar, vendor), podomní obchodník (Hawker, higgler, huckster, pedlar), roznašeè (pedlar). (various references) | |
Finnish | kaupustelija (hawker, pedlar). (various references) | |
German | Hausierer (hawker, huckster, hucksters, peddlers, pedlar, pedlars). (various references) | |
Greek | γυρολόγοσ (huckster), πραγματευτήσ, πλανόδιοσ πωλητήσ (huckster, peddlar). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רוכל (huckster, packman). (various references) | |
Hungarian | házaló (Battler, Hawker, huckster, peddling, pedlar, peripatetic). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggalas (hawker), pedagang asongan, kelontong (five-and-dime goods, sundries). (various references) | |
Italian | venditore ambulante (coster, costermonger, Hawker, huckster, packman, pedlar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 行商人 (hawker, pedlar), 立ち売り , 旅商人 , 大"商人 (hawker, street vendor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょうしょうに" (hawker, pedlar), たびしょうに", たびあき"ど, たちうり, いどうしょうに" (hawker, street vendor). (various references) | |
Korean | 행상인 (Packman, Packmen). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eddlerpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vendedor ambulante (cadger, haberdasher, hawk, hawker, huckster, packman, peddlar, pedlar, peripatetic, tranter), mexeriqueiro (gossipy, newsmonger, pedlar, quidnunc, scandalmonger, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale), mascate (duffer, hawker, huckster, pedlar, vendor). (various references) | |
Romanian | comerţ ambulant (huckstery, pedlary). (various references) | |
Russian | разносчик (cadger, gutter-man, hawker, higgler, packman, pedlar, tranter, vender). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prodavac (bargainer, clerk, merchandiser, monger, pedlar, salesclerk, salesman, salesperson, seller, shop assistant, vender, vendor), torbar (chapman, huckster, marsupial, packman, peddlar, pedlar, pursebearer). (various references) | |
Spanish | vendedor ambulante (coster, Hawker, huckster, pedlar). (various references) | |
Swedish | langare (pedlar, pusher), gatuförsäljare (Hawker, huckster, pedlar, pitchman, pitch-man, street vendor). (various references) | |
Turkish | seyyar satıcı (barrow boy, barrowman, chapman, coster, costermonger, Hawker, huckster, packman, pedlar, roadman), lafçı (pedlar, scandalmonger), işportacı (chapman, huckster, pedlar, vender), dedikoducu (babbler, back biter, backbiter, gossipmonger, gossipper, gossipy, newsmonger, pedlar, retailer of news, scandalmonger, scandalous, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale, tittle tattle), dağıtıcı (deliveryman, dispersive, distributer, distributor, pedlar, runner, spreader). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рознощик (badger, butcher, cadger, conveyer, conveyor, packman, pedlar), паганий працівник (pedlar), пліткар (blabber, bobber, buzzer, cackler, earwig, gossiper, novelist, pedlar, pimp, quidnunc, retailer, scandalmonger, tattler, tattletale, telltale, tittle tattle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người hay ng"i lê đôi mách tiếng lóng kẻ cắp (pedlar). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | circiter, institores, institoris, institorum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "peddler": peddleries, peddlers, peddlery. (additional references) | |
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"Peddler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: geddle, padder, padler, Peddie, peddlar, Pedelow, peder, pedle, Pedlow, pedule, Pendley, Pidger, podler, puddler, Reddler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "peddler" (pronounced pe"dler) |
| 4 | -e" d l er | medlar. |
| 3 | -d l er | Chandler, handler, landler, panhandler, Riddler, toddler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-l-p-r" | |
-1 letter: peddle, pedler, reddle, repled. | |
-2 letters: deled, dreed, elder, leper, preed, reded, repel. | |
-3 letters: deed, deep, deer, dele, dere, dree, leer, peed, peel, peer, pele, pled, pree, redd, rede, reed, reel. | |
-4 letters: dee, del, eel, eld, ere, led, lee, ped, pee, per, red, ree, rep. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, el, er, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-l-p-r" | |
+1 letter: deplored, peddlers, peddlery, preluded. | |
+2 letters: plundered, precluded, premolded, repleaded, repledged. | |
+3 letters: depravedly, peddleries, predrilled, redeployed, splendider, stepladder. | |
+4 letters: depolarized, dispersedly, overpedaled, overplaided, paraldehyde, philandered, pretendedly, redeveloped, redisplayed, stepladders, underlapped, underplayed. | |
+5 letters: interpleaded, overpedalled, paraldehydes, prescheduled, reduplicated, relandscaped. | |
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