peddle
/ˈpɛdəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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 bay and ought to fetch a fair price."
- "- 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."
- "Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law."
- "Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery."
- "Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer."
- "As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers"."