Peddle



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.兜售
• ［英］ v.兜售 ( travel about selling wares)
• ［同］ 派生词: peddler ( 小贩)

Webster Collegiate

verb (peddled; peddling)

• Etymology: back-formation from peddler, from Middle English pedlere, alteration of pedder peddler
• Date: 1532
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to travel about with wares for sale; broadly sell
  • 2. to be busy with trifles ; piddle
• transitive verb
  • 1. to sell or offer for sale from place to place ; hawk; broadly sell
  • 2. to deal out or seek to disseminate
  • 3. to offer or promote as valuable

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