druggist
English
Etymology
From French droguiste, replacing earlier drugger. See drug.
Noun
druggist (plural druggists)
- A manufacturer and vendor of drugs and medicines.
- For sale by all druggists
- 1777: Sir Lucius Cary (John Bell ed.), An Elegy on Dr. Donne (in Bell's Edition) [1]
- No druggist of the soul bestow'd on all / So catholicly a curing cordial.
Synonyms
- (medicine maker and seller): apothecary, chemist, pharmacist
Translations
pharmacist — see pharmacist