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means Someone traveling on foot, or — by unkind extension — something so plain and unoriginal it might as well be walking when it could have flown.

from From Latin 'pedester' (going on foot), rooted in 'pes/pedis' — 'foot,' the same root that gives us 'pedal' and 'pedestal.' The word entered English in the 1700s simply meaning 'on foot.' The insult sense — dull, unimaginative, plodding — developed soon after, built on the same snobbish logic that made 'pedestrian' travel seem lowly once carriages and later cars existed: walking was what you did if you had no better, faster, more elevated way to go.