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/pˈɛdəlɪŋ/ /pˈɛdlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Peddle v. t. (past & past part. peddled; pres. part. peddling) 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.

Peddle 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.

To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.

adjective

Peddling adj.

Hawking; acting as a peddler.

Petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling; now less common than piddling. "The miserable remains of a peddling commerce."

Synonyms: petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling.

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Etymology of 'Peddling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Peddling" Quotes from Famous Books

... spinners, the ship-owners and the slave-traders. The slave-traders! The men who live and grow rich by a traffic in human flesh and blood in the colonies, are conducting at home a campaign in the sacred name of liberty! Don't you see that the whole movement is a movement of hucksters and traders and peddling vassals swollen by wealth into envy of the power that lies in birth alone? The money-changers in Paris who hold the bonds in the national debt, seeing the parlous financial condition of the State, tremble at the thought that it may lie in the power of a single man to cancel the debt by bankruptcy. ...

— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... railway offices at Hankow not more than forty cents would be received in small coins. If your ticket cost $10.50, you paid for it in unbroken dollars, giving the railway a chance to unload some of the undesirable change upon you. In the end I found myself reduced to peddling twenty-cent pieces among friends and friends of friends. For small change on my journey I carried rolls of copper cents, while the cook festooned himself with long ropes of copper "cash," about ...

— A Wayfarer in China - Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia • Elizabeth Kendall

... years before made quite a reputation as Samuel of Posen, he traced Mr. Curtis's birth back to Bohemia, and carried him at an early age to Jerusalem, where Curtis was said to have laid the foundations of his fame and fortune peddling suspenders. Later he sold newspapers on the streets, and, by practicing the shrewd and self-denying habits of his race, quickly became the owner of the paper for which he worked, which was called the ...

— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

... biscuit-maker, not wrought in marble, but kneaded by some one used to dough. I am no judge, not being familiar with the method of stone-cutting; but I can tell you that the fingers look to me very stiff and dumpy. It is clear also that he has been peddling at the beard; and I believe my little boy would have done so with more sense, for it looks as though he had used a knife without a point to chisel the hair. This can easily be remedied, however. He has also spoiled one of the nostrils. A little more, and the whole ...

— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds

... out of their tents. Daniel S. Dickinson, no longer peddling his griefs in private ears, declared "there was no doubt of the President's triumphant election;"[1017] the tone of Bryant and the Evening Post changed; Beecher renewed hope through the Independent and preached a political ...

— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

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