pedlar

noun

1. （旧时的）流动小贩
   a person who in the past travelled from place to place trying to sell small objects

1. → see: peddler

1. She bargained with the strawberry pedlar.
   她跟卖草莓的小贩讲价。
2. The pedlar gypped me out of a hundred yuan.
   那个小贩扎了我一百块。
3. The pedlar clammed up when I mentioned the police.
   我一提到警察小贩就不作声了。
4. The pedlar insisted on selling the apple of Sodom to the tourists.
   这个小贩非要把假货卖给这些旅游者。
5. First he had to apply for a pedlar's certificate.
   他先得申请商贩执照。
6. They arrested the pedlar.
   他们逮捕了这个小贩。
7. I buy to that book from flowing pedlar there.
   我从流动小贩那里买到了那本书。
8. The pedlar was inquisitive and something of a tattler, always itching to hear the news and anxious to tell it again.
   这个商贩爱打听别人的事，有点儿饶舌，总是心痒难熬地到处打听消息，并迫不及待地把它传开去。
9. My grandmother dickered with the pedlar over the price of apples.
   我祖母为苹果的价格与小贩讨价还价。

noun

1. someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

   Synonym:    peddlerpackmanhawkerpitchman