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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.

[Back-formation from peddler. V., intr., sense 2, probably influenced by piddle.]
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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

Imperative
peddle
peddle
Present
I peddle
you peddle
he/she/it peddles
we peddle
you peddle
they peddle
Preterite
I peddled
you peddled
he/she/it peddled
we peddled
you peddled
they peddled
Present Continuous
I am peddling
you are peddling
he/she/it is peddling
we are peddling
you are peddling
they are peddling
Present Perfect
I have peddled
you have peddled
he/she/it has peddled
we have peddled
you have peddled
they have peddled
Past Continuous
I was peddling
you were peddling
he/she/it was peddling
we were peddling
you were peddling
they were peddling
Past Perfect
I had peddled
you had peddled
he/she/it had peddled
we had peddled
you had peddled
they had peddled
Future
I will peddle
you will peddle
he/she/it will peddle
we will peddle
you will peddle
they will peddle
Future Perfect
I will have peddled
you will have peddled
he/she/it will have peddled
we will have peddled
you will have peddled
they will have peddled
Future Continuous
I will be peddling
you will be peddling
he/she/it will be peddling
we will be peddling
you will be peddling
they will be peddling
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been peddling
you have been peddling
he/she/it has been peddling
we have been peddling
you have been peddling
they have been peddling
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been peddling
you will have been peddling
he/she/it will have been peddling
we will have been peddling
you will have been peddling
they will have been peddling
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been peddling
you had been peddling
he/she/it had been peddling
we had been peddling
you had been peddling
they had been peddling
Conditional
I would peddle
you would peddle
he/she/it would peddle
we would peddle
you would peddle
they would peddle
Past Conditional
I would have peddled
you would have peddled
he/she/it would have peddled
we would have peddled
you would have peddled
they would have peddled
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.peddle - sell or offer for sale from place to placepeddle - sell or offer for sale from place to place
sell, trade, deal - do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes"
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peddle

verb
1. sell, trade, push (informal), market, hawk, flog (slang), vend, huckster, sell door to door dealers peddling drugs
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

peddle

verb
1. To travel about selling goods:
2. To offer for sale:
3. To engage in the illicit sale of (narcotics):
Slang: push.
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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] → difundir
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

peddle

[ˈpɛdəl] vt
(= sell) → colporter
[+ drugs] → faire le trafic de
[+ rumours] → colporter
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

peddle

vtfeilbieten, verkaufen; (fig) gossip etcverbreiten; to peddle drugsmit Drogen handeln
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 giro
Collins 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.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
References in classic literature ?
Among other items, Messrs Peddle and Pool, solicitors, of Monument Yard, were instructed by their client Edward Dorrit, Esquire, to address a letter to Mr Arthur Clennam, enclosing the sum of twenty- four pounds nine shillings and eightpence, being the amount of principal and interest computed at the rate of five per cent.
They peddle out such a fish as that by the pound in the market- house there; everybody buys some of him; his meat's as white as snow and makes a good fry.
"No, Maria," he went on; "Nick and Joe won't have to peddle milk, and all the kids can go to school and wear shoes the whole year round.
Indeed a white stallion's pedigree is not a good thing to peddle to Sahibs!
You ain't fit to peddle toy balloons to an Esquimaux.
These he peddles still, prompting God and disgracing man, bearing for fruit his brain only, like the nut its kernel.
She was nearing us very fast, and the beating of her peddles grew louder and louder.
A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
"Whenever you put a peddle on that sewing machine, know that you are not just putting a peddle on the machine, but your actually affecting people's lives, know that you are affecting culture, you are empowering other women and you are affecting development.
The sale of the business was facilitated by Jim Peddle, President of Playbook Advisory, a leading Chicago-based business brokerage firm.
and Julian Peddle for a cash consideration of GBP 900,000 (USD 1.383m), the company said on Monday.
"There are some weird things going on here," says Geoffrey Peddle, the bishop of the diocese.