Meaning

3 senses
  1. To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities.

    hausieren

    коммивояжёрствоватьkommivojažórstvovatʹ

  2. To sell illegal narcotics.

    sell or offer for sale from place to place

  3. (derogatory, figuratively)To spread or cause to spread.

    verbreiten

    распространятьrasprostranjatʹ

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Peddle your wares elsewhere.

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  2. Peddle your wares somewhere else.

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  3. You're a charlatan peddling snake oil.

    ruВы шарлатан, торгующий средством от всех болезней.

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  4. The candidate ended up peddling conspiracy theories.

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  5. He peddled his "miracle cure" to desperate cancer patients.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to sell things, especially door to door:
to spread or cause to spread:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to sell things, especially door to door:
to spread or cause to spread:

Origin

Back-formation from pedlar. (Compare burgle from burglar.)

Back-formation from pedlar. (Compare burgle from burglar.)

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Forms

peddles, peddling, peddled, peddled
Base formpeddle · to peddle
3rd person singularpeddles
Present participlepeddling
Past simplepeddled
Past participlepeddled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypeddle
he, she, itpeddles

Past simpleLesson

all personspeddled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave peddled
he, she, ithas peddled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill peddle

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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