a person who goes from place to place selling small goods 沿街叫卖的小贩,货郎 ■a person who sells illegal drugs or stolen goods (非法毒品或偷窃赃物的)贩卖者;销赃者 a drug pedlar. 毒品贩卖者。 ■a person who promotes an idea or view persistently or widely (观点或看法的)兜售者,散播者 pedlars of dangerous Utopianism. 危险的乌托邦思想传播者。
派生 pedlary noun
(archaic) 古)
语源
Middle English: perhaps an alteration of synonymous dialect pedder, apparently from dialect ped 'pannier'