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pedlar

pedlar is the alternative spelling of peddler.

Meaning of peddler

Noun

peddler (plural peddlers)

  1. An itinerant seller of small goods.
  2. A drug dealer.
    • Here's a cure for all your troubles
      Here's an end to all distress
      It's the old dope peddler
      With his powdered happiness1953, Tom Lehrer, “The Old Dope Peddler”, in Songs by Tom Lehrer, Pantheon, published 1981, page 18
  3. (figuratively) A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.

Proper noun capitalized: Pedlar

Pedlar

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.

Forms of pedlar

pluralpedlars

Origin of pedlar

From Middle English pedlare, variant of Middle English pedare. More at peddler.

Words formed from pedlar

Questions about pedlar

What does pedlar mean?
Pedlar means a surname.
What is pedlar the alternative spelling of?
Pedlar is the alternative spelling of peddler.
What part of speech is pedlar?
Pedlar is a proper noun.

Words near pedlar in the dictionary

  1. Pedir
  2. pedis
  3. pedis possessio
  4. pediveliger
  5. pediveligers
  6. pedlar
  7. pedlaress
  8. pedlaresses
  9. pedlaries
  10. pedlars
  11. pedlary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedlar (page history and authors); Pedlar (page history and authors); peddler (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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