pedlar

/ˈpɛdlər/

Other forms: pedlars

Definitions of pedlar

1. noun

   someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
   synonyms: hawker, packman, peddler, pitchman

   types:

   chapman

   archaic term for an itinerant peddler

   cheapjack

   a peddler of inferior goods

   crier

   a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells

   muffin man

   formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins

   sandboy

   a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'

   transmigrante

   a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell

   type of:

   marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor

   someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money