PEDDLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peddle mean? 

• PEDDLE (verb)
  The verb PEDDLE has 1 sense:

1. sell or offer for sale from place to place

  Familiarity information: PEDDLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEDDLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they peddle    ... he / she / it peddles   
Past simple: peddled   
Past participle: peddled   
-ing form: peddling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell or offer for sale from place to place

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

hawk; huckster; monger; peddle; pitch; vend

Hypernyms (to "peddle" is one way to...):

deal; sell; trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

peddler (someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals))

peddler (an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs)

peddling (the act of selling goods for a living)

 Context examples 

It was not, and so, being prevented from peddling it, he asked for the return of the poem.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

No, Maria, he went on; Nick and Joe won't have to peddle milk, and all the kids can go to school and wear shoes the whole year round.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)