ped|dle

ped|dle
ped|dle «PEHD uhl», verb, -dled, -dling.
–v.t.
1. to carry from place to place and sell: »

The farmer peddled his fruit from house to house. [He] had emigrated from Britain to Canada in 1908, made a fortune peddling clothes and real estate in the Chinatowns of the Far West (Newsweek).

2. Figurative. to offer or deal out in small quantities: »

to peddle candy, to peddle a new idea, to peddle gossip.

–v.i.
1. to travel about with things to sell.
2. Figurative. to occupy oneself with trifles; piddle: »

Coteries…peddling with the idlest of all literary problems (John A. Symonds).

[apparently < peddler]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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