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peddle
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Word definitions for peddle in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to retail," 1837 in modern use, a colloquial back-formation from peddler . Related: Peddled ; peddling .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peddle \Ped"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN influence ▪ He insists that accusations of influence-peddling and bribe-taking have dented neither his popularity nor his effectiveness. ▪ In Washington, where there are over eight thousand paid lobbyists, the newest ...
Usage examples of peddle.
One of them, sitting alone, was Ike Batchelor, a lush who had once been an advertising copy writer and who now got his drinking money peddling numbers tickets.
Rumors of murder for hire, kickbacks, bribes, and peddling his influence to the highest bidder had dogged him quietly for years, but nothing stuck.
But now he was old and exhausted and did not know current fashions and modern tastes, and whenever he did manage to concoct a new perfume of his own, it was some totally old-fashioned, unmarketable stuff that within a year they had to dilute ten to one and peddle as an additive for fountains.
Web site of a music zine called misterlittle: Hot Flash: ex-Chinawhiteboy sells out, peddles junk-slop, ends up cap-pig cancerous bigtiiime!
Or for long romantic maneuverings or hurt feelings, lingering hellos or good-byes-most of all, not for the peddling of influence or attempts to push this or that point on him.
In other words, it looks like Marle had this stuff to begin with, and peddled it around before it got to you.
They drove down the Passeggiata Archeologica and watched the streetwalkers peddling their wares.
The article recounted several real estate deals gone sour, among them a construction project down in Baja named Playa del Sol: high-end condos peddled to American retirees lured by American-style luxury living at Mexican prices.
Konreid continued to distill and peddle his popskull, and those who smoked up here grew their own tobacco, minimally concealed, with varying success.
He knew Privv of old as a result of some indiscretions by members of his flock and, despite his religious principles, he found it hard not to despise him and other Sheeters of his ilk, who wilfully peddled anything that was hurtful and claimed it as a precious civic trust.
But the most devastating of all was the discovery that his prized beauties, his cherished Arabians, had been peddled off like swine to Charles Gray-son, the cunning Baron Sytheford, who would actually force a marriage to his brassy, spinster daughter for their return.
Ted Binghamton represented an undercapitalized company that made excellent low-cost vacuum cleaners that her sales force could peddle door to door with very little retraining.
Ted Binghampton represented an undercapitalized company that made excellent law-cost vacuum cleaners that her sales force could peddle door to door with very little retraining.
Not only was he peddling the stuff to amoeboid minors, but they believed that he had taken the photographs himself and that the model had been his own brotheror should I say sister?
But in his exuberant speeches he missed no opportunity to vilify Schuschnigg or to peddle the by now shopworn lies about how the Anschluss was achieved.