An archaic term for a person on foot; a foot soldier or pedestrian, especially used in 18th-19th century literature.
From 'foot' + 'ganger' (one who gangs or goes), an archaic English compound describing those who traveled on foot in groups or individually.
A footganger was literary shorthand for an ordinary person with limited resources—Shakespeare and Dickens used it to signal working-class characters before modern social realism.
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