† dustyfootn.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A wayfarer, traveller; spec. a travelling pedlar or merchant. (In quot. 1570 applied to Death personified.) Obsolete exc. Historical.
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wayferendeOE
wayfaring manOE
way-goera1382
wayferer1388
dustyfoota1400
wayfarerc1430
thorough-farer1628
roadster1834
road-farer1845
pathfarer1880
roadman1906
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar
pedder1166
pedlar1307
dustyfoota1400
tranter1500
hawker1510
jagger?1518
jowter1550
pedder-coffec1550
pedderman1552
petty chapman1553
swadder1567
packman1571
merchant1572
swigman1575
chapman?1593
aginator1623
crier1727
duffer1735
Jew pedlar1743
fogger1800
Jew1803
box wallah1826
packie1832
cadger1840
jolter1841
pack-pedlar1859
knocker1934
doorstepper1976
machinga1993
a1400 Leg. Quat. Burg. Scotl. xxix, in Stat. Scotl. I. 361 Vagans, qui vocatur piepowdrous, hoc est Anglice Dustiefute. [tr. Beand vagabund in þe contre þe quhilk is callit pipouderus.]
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxii. 56 At thy last funerall, Quhen Dustifit to dance sall furth the call.
1609 J. Skene tr. Burrow Lawes in Regiam Majestatem 134 Burgesses, Merchands, and Dustifutes (Cremars) quhen they passe forth of the foure Portes of their burghs.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) According to Lord Kames, courts of Pie-Powder are so called, because fairs are generally composed of pedlars or wayfaring persons, who in France bear the name of Pied Poudreux, and in Scotland of Dusty-Foot.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 131 The Negotiatores, the chapmen and dustyfeet of our old laws.
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