verb [VN]
1 to try to sell goods by going from house to house or from place to place:
He worked as a door-to-door salesman peddling cloths and brushes. * to peddle illegal drugs
2 to spread an idea or story in order to get people to accept it:
to peddle malicious gossip * This line (= publicly stated opinion) is being peddled by all the government spokesmen.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for peddle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does peddle appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — peddle appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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