Peddle
['ped(ə)l] or ['pɛdl]
Definition
(v. i.) To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.
(v. i.) To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.
(v. t.) To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.
Typed by Leona
Definition
v.i. to travel about with a basket or bundle of goods esp. of smallwares for sale: to trifle.—v.t. to retail in small quantities.—ns. Pedd′ler Ped′lar Ped′ler a hawker or travelling merchant; Pedd′lery Ped′lary the trade or tricks of a peddler: wares sold by a peddler.—adj. Pedd′ling unimportant.—n. the trade or tricks of a peddler.
Inputed by Brenda
Examples
- Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- What can you expect with these peddling Middlemarch papers? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Finally the Fourteenth Point arises again to the Great Charter level out of this peddling with special cases. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was nearing us very fast, and the beating of her peddles grew louder and louder. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Typist: Sonia