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peddleries

peddleries is the plural of peddlery.

Meaning of peddlery

Noun

peddlery (usually uncountable, plural peddleries)

  1. (obsolete, usually) The trade or goods of a peddler.
  2. (obsolete, usually) trickery
    • [...] may at one time or other looke with a good judgement into these their deceitfull Pedleries,1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC, page 54

Questions about peddleries

What is peddleries the plural of?
Peddleries is the plural of peddlery.

Words near peddleries in the dictionary

  1. peddled one's ass
  2. peddler
  3. peddler's fair
  4. peddleress
  5. peddleresses
  6. peddleries
  7. peddlers
  8. peddlery
  9. peddles
  10. peddles one's ass
  11. peddlesome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peddleries (page history and authors); peddlery (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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