Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Peddle   /pˈɛdəl/   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.  
1.
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.
2.
To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Peddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Corkonian brogue, and rocked herself backwards and forwards, and shook abroad the great lambent banners of her cap-border,—a grotesque old woman, but sacred in her tender motherhood and her great grief. Her first coming was to peddle blackberries in the summer. I asked her if she ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, Issue 67, May, 1863 • Various
... said he, "I've known John for several years. He used to peddle newspapers around the bank here. I was agreeably surprised when I heard he had been appointed to a cadetship at West Point. The boys who come in almost every morning with their papers told me John was to sell me no more papers. His ...
— Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point • Henry Ossian Flipper
... Katy, that you should insult me? Do you think I have sunk so low as to peddle candy about the ...
— Poor and Proud - or The Fortunes of Katy Redburn • Oliver Optic
... that. A proud stage-driver makes a mistake about a female passenger. Thinks he has got an heiress, and she turns out to peddle sarsaparilla. "So he's naturally used up," commented Genesmere. "You estimate a girl as one thing, and she—" Here the undercurrent welled up, breaking the surface. "Did she mean that? Was that her genuine reason?" In memory he took a look at his girl's face, and repeated her words ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... hater of everything cunning and concealed, and breaks out into noble philippics against whatever is foul and vicious. But I know he will be now on the alert; and God help any unfortunate that dares to peddle unwholesome wares under the necklaces and matches of ...
— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan


More quotes...


Copyright © 2026 Free-Translator.com