Peddling

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peddling \Ped"dling\, a.
     1. Hawking; acting as a peddler.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling; -- now
        less common than {piddling}. "The miserable remains of a


        peddling commerce." --Burke.
  
     Syn: petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peddle \Ped"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peddled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Peddling}.]
     To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around
     from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very
     small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  peddling
       n : the act of selling goods for a living [syn: {vending}, {hawking},
            {vendition}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "peddling":
     Mickey Mouse, consumer preference study, consumer research,
     consumer survey, direct-mail selling, hard sell, hawking,
     high-pressure salesmanship, huckstering, jobbing,
     low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market research,
     marketing, marketing research, measly, merchandising, niggling,
     peanut, piddling, promotion, puny, retailing, sales campaign,
     sales promotion, salesmanship, selling, sellout, soft sell,
     trifling, trivial, wholesaling