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Can I get away with using the word "bywalker"?
My sentence is, "they break the fast and beam a smile at you, the bywalker".

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No such word. You probably mean passerby.

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I'd go with "passerby". Another option might be "bypasser", but that doesn't necessarily mean the bypasser is walking, so you could fit in the word "pedestrian" somehow.


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I agree on passerby.+ To +bypass is to go around something, to detour, or to circumvent (such as to bypass a law).

A "bypasser" to me would be someone trying to walk around the people who are eating--for example, a big table has been set up in front of a house and you have to step off the sidewalk and into the street in order to go around the diners.

In any case, "bypasser" is not a common word.


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Another option might be "bypasser"

What on earth? Not in any variant of English I am familiar with.

For 99.9% of English speakers, a "bypass" is a way around an obstruction (e.g. "coronary bypass") so a "bypasser" would someone or something that passes an obstruction. I do find exactly one dictionary reference to "bypasser" as a variant of passerby , but can find no examples whatsoever of anybody actually using the word that way.

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What on earth?
No problem zash, I do understand that not everyone is as familiar as I am with the English language as it's spoken in various countries. Just because you've never heard it, doesn't mean it's not an option. I'll let the OP decide that. Like I said, passerby was my first choice.


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Where did you come across the word bypasser, misterbee?

I would prefer "and smile at you as you walk by." Or "and beam at you as you walk by." Not "beam a smile" and not any noun in apposition with "you".

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Are you serious?
You've never heard the word bypasser?
You have to get out more.


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You've never heard the word bypasser? You have to get out more.

Vinny asked you a question. Do you intend to answer it?

"Bypasser" is flagged as spelling mistake in MS Word in their American, British, and Australian English dictionaries (I checked). Oxford Dictionaries online doesn't include a definition for the word. I was, however, able to find a handful of references to it in newspapers. Searching The Guardian, for instance, yielded 8 hits (compared to 3,500 hits for passerby); the New York Times yielded 14 hits (compared to 11,000 hits for passerby).

While even a tiny number of hits justifies you calling "bypasser" a legitimate dialectical variant, it's reasonable to ask where you came across such an unusual locution, unknown to most of the English-speaking world.

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Where did you come across the word bypasser, misterbee?

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