Definition of "peddler" [ped•dler]

• One who travels about selling wares for a living. (noun)

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• ""Motkeh, the fish-peddler, is looking for a wife to cook him his eating and take care on his children," she was saying in her shrill, grating voice."
• "By the way Lance, I applaud your use of alliteration and assonance; "Teutonic turd peddler" is so much more poetic than "German shit merchant.""
• "In that, I propose an extension to the definition of "peddler.""