Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To travel about selling (wares).
- intransitive verb To engage in the illicit sale of (narcotics).
- intransitive verb Informal To seek to disseminate; give out.
- intransitive verb To travel about selling wares.
- intransitive verb To occupy oneself with trifles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods.
- intransitive verb To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.
- transitive verb To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
sell things, especiallydoor to door . - verb To sell
illegal narcotics . - verb derogatory, figuratively To
spread or cause to spread.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb sell or offer for sale from place to place
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The two activities do not go well together: presumably even cyclists who peddle from the saddle would not attempt to do so without stopping.
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Number of times Mixer will lie, demand asymmetric evidence, and back peddle from a pathetic argument: infinite.
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The two activities do not go well together: presumably even cyclists who peddle from the saddle would not attempt to do so without stopping.
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Number of times Mixer will lie, demand asymmetric evidence, and back peddle from a pathetic argument: infinite.
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Very few people, even propagandists knowingly lie, and they tend to believe what they peddle is in fact very true.
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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!
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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 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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Kristianto2010 commented on the word peddle
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.
March 26, 2011