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Peddler

//ˈpɛdlə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An itinerant seller of small goods.
  2. 2
    someone who travels about selling their wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) wordnet
  3. 3
    A drug dealer.

    "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"

  4. 4
    an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs wordnet
  5. 5
    A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator. figuratively

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”).

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