different between peddler vs jowter

English

Alternative forms

• pedlar (British)
• pedler (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English pedlere, pedlare, pedeler, alteration of Middle English peddere (“hawker, peddler”), of uncertain origin. Compare Medieval Latin ped?rius, from Latin ped?re (“to furnish with feet; prop up”).

Noun

peddler (plural peddlers)

1. An itinerant seller of small goods.

   Synonyms: hawker, (obsolete) chapman, huckster, monger, colporteur, solicitor

2. A drug dealer.
3. (figuratively) A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.

Derived terms

• peddle (back-formation)

Translations

Further reading

• peddler on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• jouster

Etymology

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Noun

jowter (plural jowters)

1. (archaic) A buyer and seller of fish, usually operating from a cart or a van.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)

   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.68:

     He lifted out the catfish and selected a small carp. They watched the needle swing. The old jowter twisted up the apron in his hands. Two and a half, he said.