Word Meanings - PEDDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license. 2. To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PEDDLE)

• Hawk
• Sell
• peddle
• retail

Related words: (words related to PEDDLE)

• RETAIL
  The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
• PEDDLER
  One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.
• RETAILMENT
  The act of retailing.
• PEDDLERY
  1. The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler. 2. Trifling; trickery. "Look . . . into these their deceitful peddleries." Milton.
• RETAILER
  One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.
• PEDDLE
  1. To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license. 2. To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.
• COUNTRETAILLE
  A counter tally; correspondence . At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.
• FIRETAIL
  The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.