pedlarpeddlern.¹

Brit.

/ˈpɛdlə/, U.S.

/ˈpɛdlər/

Forms: Middle English pedelare, Middle English pedelere, Middle English pedlare, Middle English pedlere, Middle English–1500s pedeler, Middle English–1800s pedler, 1500s peddelar, 1500s– pedlar, 1600s– peddler (now chiefly U.S.).

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pedder n.

Etymology: Apparently a variant or alteration of pedder n. (compare tinkler n.¹ and tinker n.¹, and see tinkler n.¹ for possible explanations for the development). Compare later peddle v.¹Earliest attested as a surname (compare quot. 1307 at sense 1). The form peddler is usual in the U.S., and is occasionally found in the U.K., especially in sense 3. In later use (especially in form peddler ) perhaps sometimes reinterpreted as if < peddle v.¹ + -er suffix¹. In Older Scots a metathesized form pedral, pedderell is also recorded.

1. An itinerant trader or dealer in small goods, esp. a trader who goes from door to door with goods carried in a pack.essence peddler: see essence n. Compounds 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar

pedder1166

pedlar1307

dustyfoota1400

tranter1500

hawker1510

jagger?1518

jowter1550

pedder-coffec1550

pedderman1552

petty chapman1553

swadder1567

packman1571

merchant1572

swigman1575

chapman?1593

aginator1623

crier1727

duffer1735

Jew pedlar1743

fogger1800

Jew1803

box wallah1826

packie1832

cadger1840

jolter1841

pack-pedlar1859

knocker1934

doorstepper1976

machinga1993

1307 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 53 (MED) Will. Le Pedelare.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 258 (MED) I haue as moche pite of pore men as pedlere hath of cattes.

c1475 Advice to Lovers in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 30 (MED) Now coorbed is thi bakke; Or sone shal bene as pedeler to his pakke.

1542 T. Becon Gold Boke f. 45 For it is no vntrue prouerbe. She that taketh the pedlers ware, must be fayne to haue the pedler himselfe also at the last.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 238 All as a poore pedler he did wend, Bearing a trusse of tryfles at hys backe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 182 O Master: if you did but heare the Pedler at the doore, you would neuer dance againe after a Tabor and Pipe.

1660 J. Milton Brief Notes Serm. 1 Not unlike the Fox, that turning Pedler, opend his pack of ware before, the Kid.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vii. 102 The first seemed to be an Assembly of Heroes and Demy-Gods; the other a Knot of Pedlars, Pick-pockets, High-way-men and Bullies.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (ed. 2) I. xii. 118 As she spoke, Moses came slowly on foot, and sweating under the deal box which he had strapt round his shoulders like a pedlar.

1803 Lit. Mag. (Philadelphia) Dec. 169 Notwithstanding the general opprobrium heaped on the poor pedlars.

1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) ii. 40 Articles of earthenware..were..hawked about by..pedlers, who carried their stocks upon their backs.

1895 Daily News 19 Mar. 7/7 A hawker is a man who travels about selling goods with a horse and cart or van. A pedlar carries his goods himself.

1958 R. K. Narayan Guide xi. 215 Peddlers of various kinds were also threading in and out, selling balloons, reed whistles, and sweets.

1990 Police Rev. 28 Sept. 1922/3 A pedlar must at all times produce his certificate on demand to—a person to whom he offers goods for sale.

2. figurative. A person who deals in an abstract commodity, as gossip, influence, etc.; esp. a person who promotes a theory, opinion, etc., persistently or widely.influence pedlar: see influence pedlar n. at influence n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > one who engages in an activity or occupation > one who concerns himself with

intermeddler1576

pedlar1593

trader1613

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 23 I expected nether an Oratour of the stewes: nor..a pedler of straunge newes: nor anye base trumperye.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 318 This fellow..is Witts Pedler, and retales his wares: At Wakes and Wassels, meetings, markets, Faires.

1618 B. Holyday Τεχνογαμια Epil. Brought in Impostors, Gypsies, and such vile Pedlars of Artes.

1668 J. Glanvill Blow at Mod. Sadducism 152 My zeal against those pedlers of Wit.

1842 C. Mathews Career Puffer Hopkins xxx. 233 A pedlar of logic, and a wholesale dealer in falsehood and fable.

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 152 The pedlers of rumor in the North.

1968 W. Safire New Lang. Politics 204/2 Influence pedlar, one who has, or claims to have, the contacts and ‘pull’ supposedly necessary to get government contracts.

1991 Wilson Q. Spring 94/1 ‘Panic peddlers’ and machine politicians fostered residential segregation.

3. Originally U.S. A person who trades in illicit merchandise, as illegal drugs, stolen goods, forged notes, etc. Frequently with modifying word.Cf. drug peddler n. at drug n.¹ Compounds 1a(b)(i).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things

soaper?c1225

oilman1275

smear-monger1297

upholder1333

basket-seller?1518

broom-seller?1518

upholster1554

rod-woman1602

starchwoman1604

pin manc1680

colour seller1685

potato-woman1697

printseller1700

rag-seller1700

Greenwich barber1785

sandboy1821

iceman1834

umbrella man1851

fly-boy1861

snuff-boxera1871

pedlar1872

snake-boy1873

bric-a-brac man1876

tinwoman1884

resurrectionist1888

butch1891

paanwallah1955

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs

drug dealer1800

drug peddler1889

swing man1903

drug pusher1904

drug trafficker1912

dope-merchant1921

junker1922

dope-pedlar1923

junkie1923

pedlar1929

pusher1929

dope-seller1930

dope-runner1933

connection1934

dope-smuggler1937

tea man1938

man1942

dealer1951

score1951

passer1956

candy man1965

narcotraficante1980

clocker1989

1872 G. P. Burnham Mem. U.S. Secret Service p. vii Peddler, an itinerant counterfeit money-seller.

1929 M. A. Gill Underworld Slang 9/1 Peddlers, drug bootleggers.

1930 ‘E. Queen’ French Powder Myst. xxxviii. 313 A gang of drug-peddlers operating..in this city.

a1953 E. O'Neill Hughie (1959) 27 Take my tip, pal, and don't never try to buy from a dope peddler.

1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie iv. 43 A peddler..was pushing Mexican H on 103rd and Broadway.

1978 T. Williamson Technicians of Death vi. 44 They're ready to deal in junk [sc. drugs]... Fringe groups..will start feeding the peddlers.

1994 W. Shaw Spying in Guru Land (1995) vi. 158 In 1972 they saved a house full of dope-smoking acid-dropping hippies, led by a long-haired acid pedlar called Rufus.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and appositive, as pedlar-man, pedlar-principle, etc.

ΚΠ

1551 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 164 The Farmer..will be a Pedlar-Merchant.

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. A3^v To reade these pedler rimes.

a1652 R. Brome Novella i. ii. l. 219, in Five New Playes (1653) I have heard of this rare Pedler-woman.

1665 R. Monsey Scarronides vii. 58 Away they hoof't it every one, With Pedlar Pack each back upon.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. iii. iv. 504 In pursuit of their own pedlar principle of turning a penny wherever a penny was to be got.

1825 E. Fitzball Pilot ii. iii. 27 Buy, buy,—poor pedlar woman, cast all adrift, an' please your Honours.

1842 W. M. Thackeray Sultan Stork in Wks. (1900) V. 739 An old pedlar-woman, who was displaying her wares.

1918 D. M. Wright Irish Heart 63 A pedlar man's come up the way With a pack of brooches and ribbons gay.

2001 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 12 Mar. 19 It was Ali Hakim, alias pedlar man David Deeley, who stole the show with his good-humoured ad-libs to the audience.

C2. Compounds with pedlar's.

pedlar's basket n. British regional †(a) ivy-leaved toadflax, Cymbalaria muralis (obsolete); (b) mother of thousands, Saxifraga stolonifera.

ΚΠ

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Pedlar's Basket, Ivy leaved snap-dragon.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Pedlar's-basket To the gay appearance of this plant [sc. Saxifraga sarmentosa = S. stolonifera]—its leaves lined with red, its flower-stalks streaming like ribands—the appellation of Pedlar's-basket is doubtless due.

1917 M. Webb Spring of Joy iii. 72 In summer, the Pedlar's-basket—a saxifrage—shows her gay wares and ribands of red stalk.

1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 297 Pedlar's basket, Som, Ches, Derb, Lancs [Local names for ivy-leaved toadflax, Cymbalaria muralis].

pedlar's French n. now historical and rare a form of cant language used by criminals among themselves; (hence) unintelligible jargon, gibberish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun]

harlot?c1225

truantc1290

shreward1297

boyc1300

lidderon13..

cokinc1330

pautenerc1330

bribera1387

bricouna1400

losarda1400

rascal?a1400

custronc1400

knapea1450

sloven?a1475

limmerc1485

knavatec1506

smaik?1507

smy?1507

koken?a1513

swinger1513

Cock Lorel?1518

pedlar's French1530

varletc1540

losthope?c1550

makeshift1554

wild rogue1567

miligant1568

rogue1568

crack-halter1573

rascallion1582

schelm1584

scoundrel1589

scaba1592

bezonian1592

slave1592

rampallion1593

Scanderbeg1601

roly-poly1602

canter1608

cantler1611

gue1612

fraudsman1613

Cathayana1616

crack-hempa1616

foiterer1616

tilt1620

picaro1622

picaroon1629

sheepmanc1640

rapscallion1648

scaramouch1677

fripon1691

trickster1711

shake-bag1794

sinner1809

cad1838

badmash1843

scattermouch1892

jazzbo1914

the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by thieves or disreputable characters

pedlar's French1530

peddling French?1536

cant1706

slang1756

patter1758

rogue's Latin1818

thieves' Latin1821

Rotwelsch1827

underworld1927

Runyonesque1934

mobese1955

smogger1958

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal

harlot?c1225

knavec1275

truantc1290

shreward1297

boinarda1300

boyc1300

lidderon13..

cokinc1330

pautenerc1330

bribera1387

bricouna1400

losarda1400

rascal?a1400

knapea1450

lotterela1450

limmerc1485

Tutivillus1498

knavatec1506

smy?1507

koken?a1513

swinger1513

Cock Lorel?1518

pedlar's French1530

cust1535

rabiator1535

varletc1540

Jack1548

kern1556

wild rogue1567

miligant1568

rogue1568

tutiviller1568

rascallion1582

schelm1584

scoundrel1589

rampallion1593

Scanderbeg1601

scroyle1602

canter1608

cantler1611

skelm1611

gue1612

Cathayana1616

foiterer1616

tilt1620

picaro1622

picaroon1629

sheepmanc1640

rapscallion1648

marrow1656

Algerine1671

scaramouch1677

fripon1691

shake-bag1794

badling1825

tiger1827

two-for-his-heels1837

ral1846

skeezicks1850

nut1882

gun1890

scattermouch1892

tug1896

natkhat1901

jazzbo1914

scutter1940

bar steward1945

hoor1965

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 727/1 They speke a pedlars frenche amongest them selfe.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Pedlar's-French, a sort of Gibrish..used by Gypsies, &c. Also the Beggers Cant.

1709 T. D'Urfey Mod. Prophets ii. i. 23 You can understand their Pedler's French, tho' not my Arabick.

1887 H. Caine Deemster III. xxxii. 42 Kidnapped? No such matter... And visions, forsooth! What pedlar's French!

1980 in Occas. Papers Univ. Sydney Austral. Lang. Res. Centre xviii. 1 From the sixteenth century cant was generally referred to as pedlars' French. This was because it was spoken by the fraternity of thieves, vagabonds and pedlars, and because it was incomprehensible—French—to most of the population.

† pedlar's pad n. Obsolete rare a walking stick.

ΚΠ

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Pedlar's-Pad, a walking stick.

Derivatives

† pedlarly adj. Obsolete rare belonging to or befitting a pedlar.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [adjective] > pedlar

pedlary1551

pedlarly1617

Scotch1641

1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. i. iv. 182 You long to be vntrussing your pedlerly fardles.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pedlar
释义	pedlarpeddlern.¹ Brit. /ˈpɛdlə/, U.S. /ˈpɛdlər/ Forms: Middle English pedelare, Middle English pedelere, Middle English pedlare, Middle English pedlere, Middle English–1500s pedeler, Middle English–1800s pedler, 1500s peddelar, 1500s– pedlar, 1600s– peddler (now chiefly U.S.). Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pedder n. Etymology: Apparently a variant or alteration of pedder n. (compare tinkler n.¹ and tinker n.¹, and see tinkler n.¹ for possible explanations for the development). Compare later peddle v.¹Earliest attested as a surname (compare quot. 1307 at sense 1). The form peddler is usual in the U.S., and is occasionally found in the U.K., especially in sense 3. In later use (especially in form peddler ) perhaps sometimes reinterpreted as if < peddle v.¹ + -er suffix¹. In Older Scots a metathesized form pedral, pedderell is also recorded. 1. An itinerant trader or dealer in small goods, esp. a trader who goes from door to door with goods carried in a pack.essence peddler: see essence n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar pedder1166 pedlar1307 dustyfoota1400 tranter1500 hawker1510 jagger?1518 jowter1550 pedder-coffec1550 pedderman1552 petty chapman1553 swadder1567 packman1571 merchant1572 swigman1575 chapman?1593 aginator1623 crier1727 duffer1735 Jew pedlar1743 fogger1800 Jew1803 box wallah1826 packie1832 cadger1840 jolter1841 pack-pedlar1859 knocker1934 doorstepper1976 machinga1993 1307 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 53 (MED) Will. Le Pedelare. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 258 (MED) I haue as moche pite of pore men as pedlere hath of cattes. c1475 Advice to Lovers in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 30 (MED) Now coorbed is thi bakke; Or sone shal bene as pedeler to his pakke. 1542 T. Becon Gold Boke f. 45 For it is no vntrue prouerbe. She that taketh the pedlers ware, must be fayne to haue the pedler himselfe also at the last. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 238 All as a poore pedler he did wend, Bearing a trusse of tryfles at hys backe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 182 O Master: if you did but heare the Pedler at the doore, you would neuer dance againe after a Tabor and Pipe. View more context for this quotation 1660 J. Milton Brief Notes Serm. 1 Not unlike the Fox, that turning Pedler, opend his pack of ware before, the Kid. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vii. 102 The first seemed to be an Assembly of Heroes and Demy-Gods; the other a Knot of Pedlars, Pick-pockets, High-way-men and Bullies. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (ed. 2) I. xii. 118 As she spoke, Moses came slowly on foot, and sweating under the deal box which he had strapt round his shoulders like a pedlar. 1803 Lit. Mag. (Philadelphia) Dec. 169 Notwithstanding the general opprobrium heaped on the poor pedlars. 1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) ii. 40 Articles of earthenware..were..hawked about by..pedlers, who carried their stocks upon their backs. 1895 Daily News 19 Mar. 7/7 A hawker is a man who travels about selling goods with a horse and cart or van. A pedlar carries his goods himself. 1958 R. K. Narayan Guide xi. 215 Peddlers of various kinds were also threading in and out, selling balloons, reed whistles, and sweets. 1990 Police Rev. 28 Sept. 1922/3 A pedlar must at all times produce his certificate on demand to—a person to whom he offers goods for sale. 2. figurative. A person who deals in an abstract commodity, as gossip, influence, etc.; esp. a person who promotes a theory, opinion, etc., persistently or widely.influence pedlar: see influence pedlar n. at influence n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > one who engages in an activity or occupation > one who concerns himself with intermeddler1576 pedlar1593 trader1613 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 23 I expected nether an Oratour of the stewes: nor..a pedler of straunge newes: nor anye base trumperye. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 318 This fellow..is Witts Pedler, and retales his wares: At Wakes and Wassels, meetings, markets, Faires. View more context for this quotation 1618 B. Holyday Τεχνογαμια Epil. Brought in Impostors, Gypsies, and such vile Pedlars of Artes. 1668 J. Glanvill Blow at Mod. Sadducism 152 My zeal against those pedlers of Wit. 1842 C. Mathews Career Puffer Hopkins xxx. 233 A pedlar of logic, and a wholesale dealer in falsehood and fable. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 152 The pedlers of rumor in the North. 1968 W. Safire New Lang. Politics 204/2 Influence pedlar, one who has, or claims to have, the contacts and ‘pull’ supposedly necessary to get government contracts. 1991 Wilson Q. Spring 94/1 ‘Panic peddlers’ and machine politicians fostered residential segregation. 3. Originally U.S. A person who trades in illicit merchandise, as illegal drugs, stolen goods, forged notes, etc. Frequently with modifying word.Cf. drug peddler n. at drug n.¹ Compounds 1a(b)(i). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things soaper?c1225 oilman1275 smear-monger1297 upholder1333 basket-seller?1518 broom-seller?1518 upholster1554 rod-woman1602 starchwoman1604 pin manc1680 colour seller1685 potato-woman1697 printseller1700 rag-seller1700 Greenwich barber1785 sandboy1821 iceman1834 umbrella man1851 fly-boy1861 snuff-boxera1871 pedlar1872 snake-boy1873 bric-a-brac man1876 tinwoman1884 resurrectionist1888 butch1891 paanwallah1955 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs drug dealer1800 drug peddler1889 swing man1903 drug pusher1904 drug trafficker1912 dope-merchant1921 junker1922 dope-pedlar1923 junkie1923 pedlar1929 pusher1929 dope-seller1930 dope-runner1933 connection1934 dope-smuggler1937 tea man1938 man1942 dealer1951 score1951 passer1956 candy man1965 narcotraficante1980 clocker1989 1872 G. P. Burnham Mem. U.S. Secret Service p. vii Peddler, an itinerant counterfeit money-seller. 1929 M. A. Gill Underworld Slang 9/1 Peddlers, drug bootleggers. 1930 ‘E. Queen’ French Powder Myst. xxxviii. 313 A gang of drug-peddlers operating..in this city. a1953 E. O'Neill Hughie (1959) 27 Take my tip, pal, and don't never try to buy from a dope peddler. 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie iv. 43 A peddler..was pushing Mexican H on 103rd and Broadway. 1978 T. Williamson Technicians of Death vi. 44 They're ready to deal in junk [sc. drugs]... Fringe groups..will start feeding the peddlers. 1994 W. Shaw Spying in Guru Land (1995) vi. 158 In 1972 they saved a house full of dope-smoking acid-dropping hippies, led by a long-haired acid pedlar called Rufus. Compounds C1. General attributive and appositive, as pedlar-man, pedlar-principle, etc. ΚΠ 1551 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 164 The Farmer..will be a Pedlar-Merchant. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. A3^v To reade these pedler rimes. a1652 R. Brome Novella i. ii. l. 219, in Five New Playes (1653) I have heard of this rare Pedler-woman. 1665 R. Monsey Scarronides vii. 58 Away they hoof't it every one, With Pedlar Pack each back upon. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. iii. iv. 504 In pursuit of their own pedlar principle of turning a penny wherever a penny was to be got. View more context for this quotation 1825 E. Fitzball Pilot ii. iii. 27 Buy, buy,—poor pedlar woman, cast all adrift, an' please your Honours. 1842 W. M. Thackeray Sultan Stork in Wks. (1900) V. 739 An old pedlar-woman, who was displaying her wares. 1918 D. M. Wright Irish Heart 63 A pedlar man's come up the way With a pack of brooches and ribbons gay. 2001 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 12 Mar. 19 It was Ali Hakim, alias pedlar man David Deeley, who stole the show with his good-humoured ad-libs to the audience. C2. Compounds with pedlar's. pedlar's basket n. British regional †(a) ivy-leaved toadflax, Cymbalaria muralis (obsolete); (b) mother of thousands, Saxifraga stolonifera. ΚΠ 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Pedlar's Basket, Ivy leaved snap-dragon. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Pedlar's-basket To the gay appearance of this plant [sc. Saxifraga sarmentosa = S. stolonifera]—its leaves lined with red, its flower-stalks streaming like ribands—the appellation of Pedlar's-basket is doubtless due. 1917 M. Webb Spring of Joy iii. 72 In summer, the Pedlar's-basket—a saxifrage—shows her gay wares and ribands of red stalk. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 297 Pedlar's basket, Som, Ches, Derb, Lancs [Local names for ivy-leaved toadflax, Cymbalaria muralis]. pedlar's French n. now historical and rare a form of cant language used by criminals among themselves; (hence) unintelligible jargon, gibberish. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] harlot?c1225 truantc1290 shreward1297 boyc1300 lidderon13.. cokinc1330 pautenerc1330 bribera1387 bricouna1400 losarda1400 rascal?a1400 custronc1400 knapea1450 sloven?a1475 limmerc1485 knavatec1506 smaik?1507 smy?1507 koken?a1513 swinger1513 Cock Lorel?1518 pedlar's French1530 varletc1540 losthope?c1550 makeshift1554 wild rogue1567 miligant1568 rogue1568 crack-halter1573 rascallion1582 schelm1584 scoundrel1589 scaba1592 bezonian1592 slave1592 rampallion1593 Scanderbeg1601 roly-poly1602 canter1608 cantler1611 gue1612 fraudsman1613 Cathayana1616 crack-hempa1616 foiterer1616 tilt1620 picaro1622 picaroon1629 sheepmanc1640 rapscallion1648 scaramouch1677 fripon1691 trickster1711 shake-bag1794 sinner1809 cad1838 badmash1843 scattermouch1892 jazzbo1914 the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by thieves or disreputable characters pedlar's French1530 peddling French?1536 cant1706 slang1756 patter1758 rogue's Latin1818 thieves' Latin1821 Rotwelsch1827 underworld1927 Runyonesque1934 mobese1955 smogger1958 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal harlot?c1225 knavec1275 truantc1290 shreward1297 boinarda1300 boyc1300 lidderon13.. cokinc1330 pautenerc1330 bribera1387 bricouna1400 losarda1400 rascal?a1400 knapea1450 lotterela1450 limmerc1485 Tutivillus1498 knavatec1506 smy?1507 koken?a1513 swinger1513 Cock Lorel?1518 pedlar's French1530 cust1535 rabiator1535 varletc1540 Jack1548 kern1556 wild rogue1567 miligant1568 rogue1568 tutiviller1568 rascallion1582 schelm1584 scoundrel1589 rampallion1593 Scanderbeg1601 scroyle1602 canter1608 cantler1611 skelm1611 gue1612 Cathayana1616 foiterer1616 tilt1620 picaro1622 picaroon1629 sheepmanc1640 rapscallion1648 marrow1656 Algerine1671 scaramouch1677 fripon1691 shake-bag1794 badling1825 tiger1827 two-for-his-heels1837 ral1846 skeezicks1850 nut1882 gun1890 scattermouch1892 tug1896 natkhat1901 jazzbo1914 scutter1940 bar steward1945 hoor1965 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 727/1 They speke a pedlars frenche amongest them selfe. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Pedlar's-French, a sort of Gibrish..used by Gypsies, &c. Also the Beggers Cant. 1709 T. D'Urfey Mod. Prophets ii. i. 23 You can understand their Pedler's French, tho' not my Arabick. 1887 H. Caine Deemster III. xxxii. 42 Kidnapped? No such matter... And visions, forsooth! What pedlar's French! 1980 in Occas. Papers Univ. Sydney Austral. Lang. Res. Centre xviii. 1 From the sixteenth century cant was generally referred to as pedlars' French. This was because it was spoken by the fraternity of thieves, vagabonds and pedlars, and because it was incomprehensible—French—to most of the population. † pedlar's pad n. Obsolete rare a walking stick. ΚΠ 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Pedlar's-Pad, a walking stick. Derivatives † pedlarly adj. Obsolete rare belonging to or befitting a pedlar. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [adjective] > pedlar pedlary1551 pedlarly1617 Scotch1641 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. i. iv. 182 You long to be vntrussing your pedlerly fardles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pedlarn.² Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: piddler n. Etymology: Variant of piddler n., perhaps influenced by pedlar n.¹ Compare earlier peddling adj.² and later peddle v.² (compare etymological note at that entry). Obsolete. rare. A person who engages with something in a cursory or ineffectual manner; a dabbler, a trifler. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] > trifling activity or time-wasting > one who musardc1330 tifflerc1535 dalliera1568 pingler1578 puddlera1585 wag-wanton1601 fiddle-faddle1602 piddler1602 pedlara1625 potterer1837 frivolist1884 frivoller1889 tiddlywinker1893 muck-about1933 a1625 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Harl.) in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) 143 Pedler, I pittie thee sa pynde. 1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 26 Nov. 551 The poor deluded creature..who knew nothing..about such matters..was a perfect pedlar in political economy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2018). † pedlarv. Forms: 1600s pedler. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pedlar n.¹ Etymology: < pedlar n.¹ Obsolete. rare. transitive. To make a pedlar of. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > sell as itinerant vendor > cause to peddle pedlar1661 1661 I. B. in A. Brome Songs & Other Poems sig. N^v Why pedler'st thus thy Muse? Why dost set o'pe A shop of wit, to set the fidlers up? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.¹1307n.²a1625v.1661
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