peddle
/ˈpɛdəl/
peddle verb: to sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities.
Verb
peddle (third-person singular simple present peddles, present participle peddling, simple past and past participle peddled)
- To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities.
- My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- To sell illegal narcotics.
- - How much you think this stuff is worth?
- Yeah, there must be a million bucks' worth.
- Think we could peddle it?
- Oh, you can always get rid of it.1974, 42:19 from the start, in Gone in 60 Seconds
- - How much you think this stuff is worth?
- To spread or cause to spread.
- Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.2009, Michael John Beashel, Unshackled, page 166
- Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.2012, Niamh O'Connor, Taken, page 166
Proper noun capitalized: Peddle
Peddle
- A surname.
peddle meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
peddle in Urdu
- سودا بیچنا
peddle in Bengali
- ছোটো জিনিস বিক্রি করা, প্রচার করা
peddle in Malayalam
- കൊണ്ടുനടന്നു വിൽക്കുക, നിയമവിരുദ്ധമായി മരുന്നു വിൽക്കുക, നിസ്സാരമാക്കുക
peddle in Kannada
- ಕೂಗಿಮಾರು
More languagesFewer languages
- peddle in Tagalog
- maglako
- peddle in Malay
- jaja
Examples of peddle in a sentence
- I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
Forms of peddle
| third-person singular present | peddles |
|---|---|
| present participle | peddling |
| past participle | peddled |
| past | peddled |
Origin of peddle
Back-formation from pedlar. (Compare burgle from burglar.)
Words formed from peddle
Phrases with peddle
Words that rhyme with peddle
Questions about peddle
- What does peddle mean?
- Peddle means to sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities.
- What is peddle in Urdu?
- Peddle in Urdu is سودا بیچنا. See Peddle meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use peddle in a sentence?
- I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.
- What part of speech is peddle?
- Peddle can be a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce peddle?
- Peddle is pronounced /ˈpɛdəl/.
- What is the past tense of peddle?
- The past tense of peddle is peddled.
Words near peddle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: peddle (page history and authors); Peddle (page history and authors); peddle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); peddle (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); peddle (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); peddle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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