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pedestrians.
--adj. 2 boring, dull, banal, tiresome, commonplace, mundane,
tedious, unimaginative, uninteresting, monotonous,
run-of-the-mill, humdrum, stock, prosaic, insipid, dry, flat,
jejune, colourless, dreary, pale, ordinary, hackneyed, trite,
(as) dull as ditch-water or US also dishwater, vapid, stale,
uninspired, uninspiring, spiritless, lifeless, dead: The dean
delivered his customary pedestrian lecture to the new students.
3 walking, strolling, ambulatory, on foot, rambling,
peripatetic: We were exhausted after taking a pedestrian tour
of London.
pedigree n. (line of) descent, ancestry, genealogy, blood, bloodline,
line, extraction, lineage, stock, heritage, family, derivation,
birth, parentage, strain, roots: His pedigree is all right, but
does he have brains as well as money?
pedlar n. hawker, (door-to-door) salesman or saleswoman or
salesperson, vendor, huckster, seller, colporteur, US peddler,
drummer, Archaic chapman, Colloq cheapjack: How can you expect
the watch to work if you bought it from a street pedlar?
peek v. 1 peer, peep, glimpse, look, squint (at), squinny (at),
Scots keek, Colloq take or have a gander (at), Brit take a dekko
(at): A small boy peeked out from under the blanket.
--n. 2 look, glimpse, peep, glance, Scots keek, Colloq gander,
look-see: I've had a peek at what Father hid in the cupboard.
peel v. 1 Sometimes, peel off. skin, strip (off), pare, flay, flake
off, descale, decorticate; shuck, hull, bark, scale; desquamate:
Beulah, peel me a grape. 2 strip, undress, disrobe; do a
striptease: In the last act, everyone peels to the bare skin.
3 peel off. take off or doff, strip off: I peeled off my coat
and dived into the canal to save her.
--n. 4 skin, rind, coating, peeling: Don't you like candied
orange peel?
peep v. 1 chirp, tweet, cheep, squeak, twitter, pipe, chirrup: The
birds peeped excitedly when they saw the cat.