'Peddling' definitions:
Definition of 'peddling'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Peddling'
From: 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]
Definition of 'Peddling'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'peddling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Mickey Mouse,
- niggling,
- peanut,
- piddling,
- promotion,
- puny,
- retailing,
- sales campaign,
- sales promotion,
- salesmanship,
- selling,
- sellout,
- soft sell,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- wholesaling