Peddle vs Repeddle - What's the difference?
peddle | repeddle |
To sell things, especially door to door.
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, title= To sell illegal narcotics.
(derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread.
* 2009 , Michael John Beashel, Unshackled (page 166)
* 2012 , Niamh O'Connor, Taken (page 166)
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To peddle again or anew.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 28, author=Alessandra Stanley, title=The Spy Who Loved His Mother, Barely, work=New York Times
, passage=According to Mr. Tenet, Mr. Ledeen seemed to be repeddling to Bush administration hawks the same dubious Iranian source, Manucher Ghorbanifar, who received a burn notice in 1984 yet went on to serve as a middleman in the arms-for-hostages scandal. }}
As verbs the difference between peddle and repeddle
is that peddle is to sell things, especially door to door while repeddle is to peddle again or anew.peddle
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(peddl)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
- Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.
- Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.
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