Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA peddler. · A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe.
Borrowed from Afrikaans smous or Dutch smous, from a Yiddish word whose precise origin is uncertain. One theory is that it derives from Yiddish משה (moyshe, “Moses”), pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (moshé, “Moses”).
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