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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

... who won't work except with the whip, but that's no reason for using it on those who will. When I get a critter that hogs my good oats and then won't show them in his gait, I get rid of him. He may be all right for a fellow who's doing a peddling business, but I need a little more speed and spirit ...

— Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer

... Africa, and who had enjoyed more marvelous escapes than any man in the history of piracy, with the exception of Black Jack Morgan? "Impossible!" you say. "Why, that man is nothing but an old farmer," you cry in disappointment. "He ought to be peddling vegetables in a market!" But ...

— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt

... and as he got the item from a man who didn't know the difference, and as the boy stuck to it that the man had said lien and not lease, we did not charge that up to him. A few days later he wrote for a town photographer a paid local criticising someone who was going around the county peddling picture-frames and taking orders for enlarged pictures. That was not so bad, but it turned out that the pedlar was a woman, and she came with a rawhide and camped in the office for two days waiting for Jimmy, while he came in and out ...

— In Our Town • William Allen White

... went on record with a resolution calling for the protection of the uniform. Those firms and individuals who had used the uniform as a method of peddling their wares were scored in the resolution and it was the sense of the motion that everything possible should be done to prevent panhandlers and peddlers on the streets wearing the ...

— The Story of The American Legion • George Seay Wheat

... of active and effectual war; that he would no longer amuse the British lion in the chase of mice and rats; that he would no longer employ the whole naval power of Great Britain, once the terror of the world, to prey upon the miserable remains of a peddling commerce, which the enemy did not regard, and from which none could profit. It was expected that he would have re-asserted the justice of his cause; that he would have re-animated whatever remained to him of his allies, and endeavoured ...

— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke

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