Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To travel about selling (wares): peddling goods from door to door.
- v. To engage in the illicit sale of (narcotics).
- v. Informal To seek to disseminate; give out: peddling lies.
- v. To travel about selling wares.
- v. To occupy oneself with trifles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To travel about retailing small wares; go from place to place or from house to house selling small commodities; hawk.
- To be engaged in a small business; occupy one's self with trifles; trifle.
- To sell or retail in small quantities, usually by transporting the goods offered about the country, or from house to house; hence, to dispense or deal out in small quantities.
Wiktionary
- v. To sell things, especially door to door.
- v. To sell illegal narcotics.
- v. To spread or cause to spread (context 1).
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods.
- v. To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.
- v. To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities.
WordNet 3.0
- v. sell or offer for sale from place to place
Etymologies
- Back-formation from peddler. V., intr., sense 2, probably influenced by piddle.
Examples
“Number of times Mixer will lie, demand asymmetric evidence, and back peddle from a pathetic argument: infinite.”
“The two activities do not go well together: presumably even cyclists who peddle from the saddle would not attempt to do so without stopping.”
“Very few people, even propagandists knowingly lie, and they tend to believe what they peddle is in fact very true.”
“She and one guy (Eddie) escape in a "peddle"-powered (seriously, that's how it's spelled) submarine, and out in the ocean, they meet a strange zombie thing who calls himself Coleridge and is apparently curse-bound to recite "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (and, if you don't know it, holy crap is it a long poem!) to them.”
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“And screw all the Independents too, all they peddle is crappy fringe music the masses don’t like or want anyway at expensive prices!”
“Two quirky labels peddle delightful kitsch - bags with bright rickshaw art and ensembles with wicked James Bond lines The kitschdom arrived sometime ago.”
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“Two quirky labels peddle delightful kitsch - bags with bright rickshaw Delhi can be rather dull, despite its high-end designer boutiques, but the weekend saw heightened activity, thanks to the launch of Designer Varun Sardana stripped the runway bare and removed the seats from the show area on Day 4.”
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“Thank you for speaking out against the travesty that is the gross misuse of the word "peddle", when pedal is what is meant.”
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“It doesn't matter how good that book he/she is trying "peddle," you can tell this person would be a major pain to work with.”
“Professioanl writers don't "peddle" anything and they also treat their agents with the respect that their business partner deserve.”
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Kristianto2010 Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God. 2 Corinthians 2:17.
Mar 25, 2011