peddle

/ˈpɛdl/

/ˈpɛdəl/

Other forms: peddled; peddles

When you peddle something, you go out and try to sell it. It's cute when a little kid peddles his homemade birthday cards around the neighborhood, but if an adult did that it might be annoying.

The classic image of someone who peddles is an old-fashioned "peddler" or "tinker" traveling from village to village selling goods. The verb peddle, in fact, comes from the word "peddler," whose origin is a mystery. Any time you sell something by going from place to place, like selling Girl Scout cookies to all your neighbors, you peddle.

Definitions of peddle

1. verb

   sell or offer for sale from place to place
   synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend

   type of:

   deal, sell, trade

   do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood