peddle
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peddle
to carry around to sell; to deal out or distribute: peddle newspapers
Not to be confused with:
pedal – a foot-operated lever: Put the pedal to the metal.
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ped·dle
(pĕd′l)v. ped·dled, ped·dling, ped·dles
v.tr.
1.
a. To travel about selling (wares): peddling goods from door to door.
b. To engage in the illicit sale of (narcotics).
2. Informal To seek to disseminate; give out: peddling lies.
v.intr.
1. To travel about selling wares.
2. To occupy oneself with trifles.
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peddle
(ˈpɛdəl)vb
1. (Commerce) to go from place to place selling (goods, esp small articles)
2. (Recreational Drugs) (tr) to sell (illegal drugs, esp narcotics)
3. (tr) to advocate (ideas) persistently or importunately: to peddle a new philosophy.
4. (intr) archaic to trifle
[C16: back formation from pedlar]
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ped•dle
(ˈpɛd l)v. -dled, -dling. v.t.
1. to carry (goods, esp. small articles) from place to place for sale; hawk.
2. to attempt to spread: to peddle radical ideas.
v.i. 3. to go from place to place with goods for sale.
[1525–35; appar. back formation from peddler]
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peddle
Past participle: peddled
Gerund: peddling
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peddle
verb
1. sell, trade, push (informal), market, hawk, flog (slang), vend, huckster, sell door to door dealers peddling drugs
2. promote, publish, spread, broadcast, distribute, scatter, circulate, sow, disperse, diffuse, publicize, propagate, disseminate, promulgate biased newspapers peddling propaganda
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peddle
verb2. To offer for sale:
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Translations
يَبيعُ بالتَّجَوُّل
prodávat po domech
faldbyde
stunda farandsölu
prekiautiprekiautojas
tirgoties, iznēsājot preces
seyyar satıcılık/işportacılık yapmak
peddle
[ˈpedl] VT (= sell) → ir vendiendo (de puerta en puerta); [+ drugs] → pasar (fig) [+ ideas] → difundirCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
peddle
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
peddle
[ˈpɛdl] vt (goods) → andare in giro a vendere; (drugs) → spacciare; (gossip) → mettere in giroCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
peddle
(ˈpedl) verb to go from place to place or house to house selling (small objects). Gypsies often peddle (goods) from door to door.
ˈpedlar , (also, especially American) ˈpeddler noun a person who peddles. I bought it from a pedlar.
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