PEDDLE, PEDDLER, PEDDLERY
NOUNS
► BEARING-BACK a peddler’s staff for carrying his pack → 1607 obs.
► BEND-DOWN PLAZA a row of roadside peddlers, specializing in items that are hard to get in shops, because of import restrictions → 20C W. Indies & Jamaica
► CRAME a pack or bundle of goods carried about for sale; a peddler’s stock of wares → 1560 Sc. obs.
► KOFFRY bargaining, peddlery → 1488 Sc. obs.
► PACK-GOODS a peddler’s wares → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SHEENY WAGON a peddler’s wagon → 1956 Amer. dial.
► WALLET a bag for holding provisions, clothing, books, etc., esp. on a journey either on foot or on horseback; a knapsack, a peddler’s pack, etc. → c1386
NOUNS – PERSON
► AGINATOR a dealer in small wares; a peddler → 1623 obs.
► ARAB a huckster; a street peddler of vegetables and fruits → 1935 Amer. dial.
► AYRABA a huckster; a street peddler of vegetables and fruits → 1942 Amer. dial.
► BACHLER ► BAUCHLAR ► BAUCHLER a hawker, a peddler; also, a term of contempt → 1722 Sc. obs.
► BIBLE-THUMPER a peddler → 1898 UK sl.
► BOX-WALLAH a small peddler, who sells cheap wares → 1892 Anglo-Indian sl. (Bk.)
► BUMBOAT a hawker or peddler aboard a Navy ship → Amer. World War I sl.
► BUSHLOPER one who tramps through the bush or wilderness; a peddler → 1893 US
► CADGE a young peddler, hawker; a beggar, tramp → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CAGGER a peddler who goes to markets and houses selling small goods and often taking others in exchange → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► CANNAT a sharp, wily fellow; a peddler, a dealer → 1869 Ireland
► CRAMER a person who sells goods at a stall or booth; also, a peddler or hawker → 1491 obs.
► DUDDER a dishonest trader or peddler, esp. of clothes ort handkerchiefs; one who dupes others into buying inferior goods for a high price → 1746 sl.
► DUFF a trader or peddler; a dishonest one who dupes others into buying inferior goods for a high price, e.g. by pretending that they are valuable items which have been smuggled or stolen, and offered as bargains → 1735 sl.
► DUSTYFOOT a traveller, a wayfarer; a travelling peddler or merchant → a1400 Sc. obs.
► FAKE among peddlers and street hawkers: any odd item to be sold on the street or door to door, esp. if worthless or deceptive → 1889 sl.
► FAKER ► FAKIR an itinerant artisan, mechanic, or tradesman; hence, a peddler, street vendor, pitchman, or travelling showman → 1859 sl.
► GANGERAL ► GANGEREL ► GANGERELL ► GANGERIL ► GANGERILL ► GANGREL ► GANGRIL ► GANGRILL a wandering beggar; a vagrant, a vagabond, tramp; a wanderer, a walker; a peddler → a1450
► GAN-WIFE a female peddler going about with a basket containing, pins, laces, and knickknacks, or with tinware, brushes, and other domestic articles → 1893 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GAZER a peddler who walks about a fair or market selling as he goes → 1934 sl.
► HAGGLER a peddler, a huckster → 1851 Eng. dial.
► HARVESTMAN a person who sells vegetables or other articles from a wagon or truck, going from house to house → 1968 Amer. dial.
► IKEY-MO a Jewish receiver, money-lender, pawnbroker, or peddler → E19 sl.
► JACK-IN-A-BOX ► JACK-IN-THE-BOX a street peddler stationed in a portable stall or box → 1699 obs.
► JAGGER a carrier, a carter; a peddler, a hawker → 1514 Eng. dial.
► KANNAT a sharp, wily fellow; a peddler, a dealer → 1869 Ireland
► MUSH-FAKER ► MUSH-FAKIR one who advertises themselves as a mender of umbrellas, or peddler, but may well use this respectable job as a cover for more fraudulent pursuits → E19 sl.
► MUSH-RIGGER one who advertises themselves as a mender of umbrellas, or peddler, but may well use this respectable job as a cover for more fraudulent pursuits → E19 sl.
► MUSHROOM-FAKER one who advertises themselves as a mender of umbrellas, or peddler, but may well use this respectable job as a cover for more fraudulent pursuits → E19 sl.
► OBSERVATIONIST one who spies out likely boot for thieves, generally a peddler, hawker, etc. → 1890 cant
► PACKER a peddler → 1923 Sc. obs.
► PACK-FELLOW a peddler → 1895 Eng. dial.
► PACKIE a peddler → 1832 Sc.
► PACKIEMAN a peddler; a travelling merchant in soft goods → 1868 Sc.
► PACKLER a peddler who deals in earthenware; a travelling handyman or tinker → 1832 Sc.
► PACKMAN an itinerant trader who carries goods in a pack for sale; a peddler, a hawker → 1571
► PACK-MERCHANT a peddler, a travelling merchant in soft goods → 1877 Sc.
► PACK PEDDLER ► PACK PEDLAR an itinerant peddler who sells goods from a pack → 1859 Amer. dial.
► PAKKY a peddler → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PUSHER a person promotes or initiates the use or purchase of something; a peddler → 1929 sl., orig. US
► RIPPIER one who carries fish for sale in a ‘rip’ (a basket); a peddler → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RUN-ABOUT a peddler, an itinerant trader → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAMMY an Indian fruit peddler → 1910s sl.
► SCOTCH CUDDY a peddler; a travelling draper → 1901 Sc.
► SCOTCH DRAPER a peddler; a travelling draper → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCOTCHMAN a peddler; a travelling draper → 1879 Eng. dial.
► SHODDY DROPPER a peddler of cheap or falsely described clothing → 1937 Aust. & NZ sl.
► SHONK a trader or a peddler → 19C sl.
► SHONKEY ► SHONKY a trader or a peddler → 19C sl.
► SNARLER a species of peddler or hawker → 1398 obs.
► STROLLER a vagabond, itinerant, man of no settled abode; a gypsy, beggar, peddler, hawker, etc. → c1696 sl.
► TRUNK PEDDLER an itinerant peddler who carries his stock in a trunk → 1827 Amer. dial.
► WALLETEER one who carries a wallet (a bag for holding provisions, clothing, books, etc. on a journey either on foot or on horseback), as an itinerant beggar, a peddler, etc. → 1778
► YAGGER a peddler → 1821 Eng. dial.
VERBS
► AGINATE to trade or deal in small wares; to peddle → 1623 obs.
► CADGELL to hawk, to peddle → 1824 Sc. obs.
► FAKE among peddlers and street hawkers: to sell → 1903 Amer. sl.
► PIN THE PACK to be a peddler → 1727 Sc.
► TRIM THE PACK to follow the trade of a peddler → 1824 Sc.
► YAG to act as a peddler; to trade → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)