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passer-by

noun
/ˈpɑː.sə.baɪ/UK/ˈpæs.ɚˌbaɪ/CA/ˈpɑː.sə.bɑɪ/

Etymology

From passer + by. Compare bystander.

  1. derived from *h₁epi✻
  2. inherited from *bi✻
  3. inherited from *bī✻
  4. inherited from bī
  5. inherited from by
  6. compounded as passer-by — “passer + by”

Definitions

  1. A person who is passing by (that is, walking past).

    • When he tripped and fell in the street, several kind passers-by helped him up.
    • With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for passer-by. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA