pieman
nounEtymology * From Middle English pyman (attested as a surname), equivalent to pie + -man. * (caller in gambling games): Such games were once often run by sellers of pies as a sideline.
1
A man who sells pies.
- Simple Simon met a pieman / Going to the fair; / Says Simple Simon to the pieman, / “Let me taste your ware.”1886, James Orchard Haliwell, The Nursery Rhymes of England, 5th edition, page 31:
- Derived terms
- toss the pieman