to peddle
46
3.9
- verb
- /ˈpɛdəl/
:
vender
- During the summer, he would peddle ice cream from a cart at the beach.
- peddle locally
And they had to pay billions and billions of dollars because they were caught doing what they were doing, which is basically peddling Oxycontin to people.
- And they had to pay billions and billions of dollars because they were caught doing what they were doing, which is basically peddling Oxycontin to people.
- Doctor Schwartz was also spammed by quacks peddling shagga mushrooms.
Examples
-
In the morning, a Bhagavad Gita-peddling Hare Krishna asked sleepless Amrish if he was lost.
Fiction book (1996) -
What kind of goods are you peddling?
-
I told ya I wasn't peddling any fish today.
-
At twenty-seven, he met and moved in with Ushi, who peddled fish from door to door in the village.
Fiction book (1998) -
By the 1920s, Syrians in the South had begun to transition from peddling to grocery and dry goods.
Academic text (2004) -
In the Democratic presidential primaries, the candidates who peddled protectionism did surprisingly poorly.
Academic text (1994) -
Some crammers picked discarded oysters from shell piles in Keyport and peddled them with the clams.
Academic text (1990) -
The children set up a small stand to peddle homemade lemonade to the neighbors.
-
She decided to peddle her handmade jewelry at the local craft fair.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To give something to someone for money
152
3.9
To try to sell something or persuade people to accept an idea
24
6.8
To sell goods by walking around and calling out
1
5.6
Sell goods in public places, often from a stall or cart
To sell small goods by travelling to different towns
To travel from place to place selling goods
To sell goods in a pushy or dishonest way
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
How Active
Surface Forms
Etymology
Peddle comes from the old name peddler, a traveling seller who carried a small pack and walked from house to house. So to peddle something is to 'sell' goods by moving around and offering them to people.