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Definition: Peddle |
PeddleVerb1. Sell or offer for sale from place to place. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "peddle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: PeddleSynonyms: hawk (v), huckster (v), monger (v), pitch (v), vend (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time; spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder, dabble, faddle fribble, fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Peddle |
| English words defined with "peddle": Peddled ♦ Trant. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'll peddle home in a jiffy, it's only seven miles (Blithe Spirit; writing credit: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean and Ronald Neame. Based on the play by Noel Coward.) | |
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Worker Rights | Uganda | In urban areas, children peddle small items on the streets, are involved in the commercial sex industry (particularly in border towns and in Kampala), or beg for money. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | From now on, the rule for residents who commit crime and peddle drugs should be one strike and you're out. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Peddle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 72.22% of the time. "Peddle" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 72.22% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 22.22% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "peddle": peddle narcotics. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "peddle": peddle-bin. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
peddle car | 60 |
peddle boat | 39 |
peddle tractor | 15 |
peddle | 14 |
peddle pusher | 8 |
boat peddle pelican | 7 |
peddle steel | 6 |
cart peddle | 6 |
metal peddle | 5 |
antique car peddle | 4 |
toy peddle car | 3 |
boat peddle sale | 3 |
bike peddle | 3 |
car fire peddle truck | 3 |
medal peddle | 3 |
deere john peddle tractor | 2 |
marion peddle robert | 2 |
guiter peddle steel | 2 |
car child peddle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "peddle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shes në mënyrë ambulante, shes me pakicë (retail), jap e marr (manipulate). (various references) | |
Arabic | نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, distribute, edition, expand, extend, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, pervade, popularize, print, proclaim, programming, promulgate, promulgation, propagation, publicize, publishing, put forth, put out, run, saw, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unroll, unwrap), تجول (gallivant, get about, knock about, move, ramble, stroll, swag, tour, wander, wandering), إشتغل بالنوافه, باع متجولا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разгласявам (delate, divulge, notify, peal, proclaim, publicize, publish, reveal, sound), раздрънквам (bleat, chatter, retail, spill the beans), върша амбулантна търговия (hawk, huckster), занимавам се с маловажни работи, продавам на дребно, пилея си времето (diddle, doodle, idle away oneself time, piddle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 販 (deal in, to peddle, to sell, trade in). (various references) | |
Czech | provozovat podomní obchod, zabývat se malichernostmi, rozdávat v drobném. (various references) | |
Dutch | venten (sell door-to-door), leuren (sell door-to-door), colporteren (sell door-to-door). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kolporti (sell door-to-door), ŝakri. (various references) | |
Faeroese | bjóða til sølu við dyrnar (sell door-to-door). (various references) | |
Farsi | طوافی کردن (Hawk, Vend), دوره گردی کردن (Hawk, Hobo). (various references) | |
Finnish | kaupustella (hawk), kaupitella (offer for sale), kaupata (offer for sale). (various references) | |
French | propager, répandre, faire le trafic, faire du colportage, colporter. (various references) | |
German | hausieren (hawk, sell door-to-door), kolportieren (circulate, sell door-to-door, spread). (various references) | |
Greek | πωλώ από τόπου εισ τόπον, είμαι γυρολόγοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kicsiségekkel foglalkozik, házal (to canvass, to canvass from door to door, to hawk, to peddle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penjaja (canvasser, hawker, packman, vendor), asongan. (various references) | |
Italian | vendere al minuto, spacciare (pretend, push, sell, spread), fare venditore ambulante (hawk). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 売り歩く (to peddle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うりあるく (to peddle). (various references) | |
Manx | mynghellal (peddling, pedlary), creck (dispose, sale, sell, vend). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eddlepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | traficar (deal, huckster), ser vendedor ambulante, mercadejar, chatinar. (various references) | |
Romanian | vinde cu amãnuntul (retail), se ţine de fleacuri (dally, fribble, frivol, niggle), face comerţ ambulant (vend). (various references) | |
Russian | торговать вразнос/ внештатный, торговать мелким товаром, заниматься мелочами, заниматься пустяками (dally, niggle, palter, piddle, piddled, trifle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prčkati (pick, potter), torbariti. (various references) | |
Spanish | vender de puerta en puerta. (various references) | |
Swedish | idka gårdfarihandel. (various references) | |
Turkish | seyyar satıcılık yapmak (hawk), kapı kapı dolaşarak satmak, işportacılık yapmak (hawk, huckster, vend), önemsiz şeylerle uğraşmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | торгувати (chap, higgle, market, merchandise, merchandize, niffer, trade, traffic), бути рознощиком. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "peddle": peddled, peddler, peddleries, peddlers, peddlery, peddles. (additional references) | |
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"Peddle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beddelem, deddle, Epdd, geddle, neddle, paddel, padel, padle, pedale, peddal, Peddie, Peddlety, pede, pedel, Pedelow, pedile, pedle, Pedlow, Pedoe, pedule, peedled, pendel, pendle, Pendley, perdre, pettle, Pezdek, Pheidole, piadle, piddley, piddly, Piedade, pirdle, poddle, poddled, podule, yendle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "peddle" (pronounced pe"dul) |
| 5 | p e" d u l | pedal. |
| 4 | -e" d u l | Bedell, medal, meddle, Wedel. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, befuddle, bindle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, Brindle, bundle, caboodle, candle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, dwindle, feudal, fiddle, fondle, genocidal, girdle, handle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, spindle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, swindle, intermodal, intertidal, kindle, ladle, manhandle, middle, minoxidil, mishandle, modal, model, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, panhandle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, rekindle, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, Rundle, saddle, sandal, scandal, Seidel, sidle, tidal, toddle, trundle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, unbundle, vandal, Waddle, widdle, Windle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-l-p" | |
-1 letter: deled. | |
-2 letters: deed, deep, dele, peed, peel, pele, pled. | |
-3 letters: dee, del, eel, eld, led, lee, ped, pee. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-l-p" | |
+1 letter: pedaled, peddled, peddler, peddles, pleaded, pledged. | |
+2 letters: decupled, deplaned, depleted, deplored, deployed, deplumed, duplexed, exploded, pedalled, peddlers, peddlery, pedicled, preluded. | |
+3 letters: bedimpled, decoupled, depilated, despoiled, developed, dewlapped, dispelled, impleaded, impledged, peduncled, plundered, precluded, premolded, repleaded, repledged. | |
+4 letters: addlepated, dependable, dependably, depolished, depravedly, dispeopled, displeased, mispleaded, peddleries, pedestaled, predrilled, redeployed, splendider, stepladder, unexploded, vilipended. | |
+5 letters: backpedaled, codeveloped, dependently, depolarized, depopulated, dispersedly, overpedaled, overplaided, paraldehyde, pedestalled, philandered, pigheadedly, pretendedly, redeveloped, redisplayed, sideslipped, speedballed, splendidest, stepladders, underlapped, underplayed, undeveloped. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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