Picture a person with the whole shop on their back: an open box on a strap, or a small cart. Nothing waits on a shelf for customers to come. The seller walks, stops in front of someone, opens the box, and moves on.
From the word’s history
The source traces it to Middle English pedlere and peddere, a hawker, and then says the origin is uncertain. It also offers a possible link to a Latin word for foot, which would fit selling on foot, but that link is marked uncertain too.
來源把它追到中古英語的 pedlere、peddere（叫賣的人），再往前就標成不確定。來源另外提到一條可能跟拉丁文「腳」有關的線索——正好對得上「靠腳走著賣」——但那條線索本身也被寫成不確定，所以只能當成一種說法。
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
peddlernoun/ˈpɛdlə/
- 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 happiness
- 3
A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。