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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

... ago an iron bar had been fastened across the exact center of the opening, since the former owner of the shanty-boat did not enjoy the thought that roving boys might enter and pillage while he was on his route, peddling the buffalo fish ...

— The House Boat Boys • St. George Rathborne

... stunned by the blow. His withdrawal from the duties of the sovereignty in favour of such a son had proved a constitutional unfitness for the duties of his station. The life he loved was one of seclusion in a round of pious exercises, petty studies, peddling economies, and mechanical amusements. A powerful and grasping Pope was on the throne of Rome. Urban at this juncture pressed Francesco Maria hard; and in 1624 the last Duke of Urbino devolved his lordships to the Holy See. He survived the formal ...

— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds

... houses that you can see in any of our mountain gaps, where the land produces nothing but grasshoppers and rocks, and the farmers have to get along by raising chickens to keep down the swarms of grasshoppers, and by peddling huckleberries, and they say, but I never saw them at it, by holding the hind legs of the sheep up to let them get their noses between ...

— Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals - As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac • William H. Armstrong

... uncle Ro been a true son of peddling, he would have charged a dollar extra on each of the nineteen, and made eleven dollars by his ...

— The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. - Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts • James Fenimore Cooper

... seeds sprouted and did half as well as the catalogue promised, the level behind the barn would fall a prey to Murphy and become just a heap of melons. Elizabeth suggested that I add another acre and devote my summer vacation to peddling them. ...

— Dwellers in Arcady - The Story of an Abandoned Farm • Albert Bigelow Paine

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