a person who draws on the pavement with chalk and earns money from the donations of passersby
screever in American English
(ˈskrivər)
noun
chiefly Brit
an artist who draws pictures on sidewalks, as with colored chalks, earning a living from the donations of spectators and passersby
Word origin
[1875–80; earlier screeve (v.) (‹ Polari) ‹ It scrivere to write (‹ L scrībere) + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1875–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: authoritarian, massage, overdraft, slime mold, weekender-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)