i Register
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noun
A peddler.
A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe.
verb
To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.
Not only South Africans, White and Black, but fortune hunters from Europe and America, Indian and Chinese labourers and traders, and Jews from the ghettoes (sic) and shtetles of Eastern Europe, who had come to 'smous' […]