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peddle

[ped-l]

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verb (used with object)

to carry (small articles, goods, wares, etc.) from place to place for sale at retail; hawk.

to deal out, distribute, or dispense, especially in small quantities: to peddle radical ideas.

to sell (drugs) illicitly.

verb (used without object)

to go from place to place with goods, wares, etc., for sale at retail.

to occupy oneself with trifles; trifle.

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Origin:
1525–35; apparently back formation from peddler; in def. 4, reinforced by piddle

Related forms

re·ped·dle, verb (used with object), -dled, -dling.

un·ped·dled, adjective

Can be confused: pedal, peddle, petal.

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Example Sentences

He continued to peddle his wares until unable to walk a few months ago.

Essig, this country will never buy into the socialist bulls**t you and your fellow travellers try to peddle.

Regulators also peered into managers' murky fee structures and their often cosy dealings with brokers who peddle their funds.

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He continued to peddle his wares until unable to walk a few months ago.

Essig, this country will never buy into the socialist bulls**t you and your fellow travellers try to peddle.

Regulators also peered into managers' murky fee structures and their often cosy dealings with brokers who peddle their funds.

Some of of us have, but apparently not ignorant journalists who parrot what corporate agriculture wants to peddle.

Meanwhile, states and countries plan to peddle the attributes of their respective geographies as the best place for biotech.

Let's say you're trying to peddle some fake flowers.

Housewives sell pastries from their back doors, and bus and truck drivers peddle petrol.

Dole suddenly finds himself trying to peddle a supply-side tax cut to remedy the ailments of a new economy he'll never understand.

Bright-eyed bankers peddle ideas for other combinations.

There is no doubt that variable annuities are good for those who peddle them.

Some investors wonder about the honesty of the investment banks that peddle these bonds.

By this time the aid issue was being used to peddle some pet schemes.

Those who have to peddle goods or search for casual labour are equally well placed.

Meanwhile, some banks are trying to peddle other emerging-market investments instead.

Drug firms are starting to use more sophisticated techniques than a short skirt and a smile to peddle their pills.

They aren't convenient to the false distinctions this article is trying to peddle.

By failing to address this issue head on, the writer can only be suspected of having an agenda to peddle.

While the top private schools peddle their access to the top universities, it is really a self-selecting process.

The magazine will have to peddle its stuff somewhere else.

It's certainly not the women whose flesh they peddle and to whom they refer in crude anatomical slang.

Weiss hopes to peddle her creation to local coffee shops and elsewhere.

Sophisticated radio tags and database software are not much use in places where street hawkers peddle fakes with impunity.

Locals come daily to peddle their hand-loomed and handcrafted.

Then they were determined to peddle their nonsense in the public schools.

Amway has begun to peddle perfume and honey-glycerine soap.

Keep dreaming and hoping the degrees you peddle are that necessary.

Firms of varying competence and credibility peddle technical solutions.

Locals come daily to peddle their hand-loomed and handcrafted wares.

It does not guarantee everybody equal access to the marketplace to peddle their ideas.

Carlos cannot be allowed to peddle this nonsense and go unchallenged.

It's amazing they peddle this crap to the public with a straight face.

Coca-Cola generally favors a wholesome approach to peddle its beverage brands.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he finally got a license and was able to peddle legally.

They did not bother to peddle the government's propaganda that the unrest has been stirred up by foreign agents and so forth.

Harris played a more active role in seeking to peddle his influence.

But the system rewards those who can peddle plausible snake oil, and excludes anyone who is scrupulous about telling the truth.

They both peddle their own brand of poison to the people.

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World English Dictionary

peddle (ˈpɛd^əl)

—vb
1.	to go from place to place selling (goods, esp small articles)
2.	(tr) to sell (illegal drugs, esp narcotics)
3.	(tr) to advocate (ideas) persistently or importunately: to peddle a new philosophy
4.	archaic (intr) to trifle

[C16: back formation from pedlar]

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Word Origin & History

peddle

"to retail," 1837, colloquial back formation from peddler.

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