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A peddler (American English) or pedlar (British English) [a] is a door-to-door and/or travelling vendor of goods. In 19th-century America the word "drummer" was often used to refer to a peddler or traveling salesman; as exemplified in the popular play Sam'l of Posen; or, The Commercial Drummer by George H. Jessop .
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When printing Lithuanian language books in Latin alphabet was forbidden in Russian Empire, book peddlers, knygnešiai in Lithuanian, smuggled the books printed abroad, in Lithuania Minor, under the threat of criminal prosecution.
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The original meaning of huckster is a person who sells small articles, either door-to-door or from a stall or small store, like a peddler or hawker. The term probably derives from the Middle English hucc, meaning "to haggle". [1] The word was in use circa 1200 as "huccsteress".
Peddler, a traveling vendor of goods; a merchant dealer, such as: Costermonger, a street seller of fruit and vegetables; in Britain also general (synonym) peddler; Cheesemonger, a specialist seller of cheeses; Fellmonger, a merchant of hides and skins; Fishmonger, a wholesaler or retailer of raw fish and seafood
He has been educated at an Indian or English public school and at one of the two English universities, whose accent, through all the encircling hazards of Indian intonation, he rigidly maintains." [ 8 ] Naipaul mentioned film personality Chidananda Dasgupta , who had worked with Imperial Tobacco in Calcutta, as someone who was a boxwallah. [ 9 ]
Old English céapmann was the regular term for "dealer, seller", cognate with the Dutch koopman and German Kaufmann with the same meaning. Old English céap meant "deal, barter, business". The modern adjective cheap is a comparatively recent development from the phrase a good cheap , literally "a good deal" (cf. modern Dutch goedkoop = cheap).