"Peddling wares" (often misspelled or misheard as "paddling wares") means to travel around selling small items, goods, or products, typically on a door-to-door basis or in a public space. A person who does this is known as a peddler.
Paddling, in regard to waterborne transport, is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using at least one hand-held paddle, or paddling directly with the hands (without a paddle) as in traditional paddleboarding (also known as prone paddleboarding).
: to sell (something) usually in small amounts and often by traveling to different places. They peddled fruits and vegetables out of their truck on the side of the road. She now peddles her wares [=sells her products] on the Internet.
/ˈweɚ/ plural wares. Britannica Dictionary definition of WARE. 1. [noncount] : things that are made from a particular material or that are designed for a particular use — usually used in combination.
Today, peddlers continue to travel by foot. However, they also use bicycle, hand-held carts, horse-drawn carts or drays and motorized vehicles such as motor-bikes as transport modes. To carry their wares, peddlers use purpose-built back-packs, barrows, hand-carts or improvised carrying baskets.
A spanking paddle is an implement used to strike a person on the buttocks. The act of spanking a person with a paddle is known as "paddling". A paddling may be for punishment (normally of a student at school in the United States), for fun (non-erotic or erotic), or as an initiation or hazing ritual.
So, unless you're paddling in protected, close-in waters, then a wetsuit or dry suit is recommended for all but the mildest conditions—you'd be wise to wear one any time the water temps are 70 degrees Fahrenheit or cooler. A wetsuit is the minimum protection needed for those conditions.
Any time you sell something by going from place to place, like selling Girl Scout cookies to all your neighbors, you peddle. Definitions of peddle. verb. sell or offer for sale from place to place. synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend.
"Crying your wares" would be "announcing what you've got to sell". You probably wouldn't call it that now, but you can see it in action at a sports game from a vendor in the stands: "Hot dogs! Peanuts!"
It is often used in the context of selling goods or services. Example: The street vendor peddled his handmade jewelry to tourists in the busy market. Incorrect: The street vendor paddled his handmade jewelry to tourists in the busy market.
/ˈkɒki/ Other forms: cockily; cockiest; cockier. Cocky means "overly self-confident," like a cocky announcement at the beginning of the season that your soccer team will win the championship without even trying. Cocky originally meant "lecherous," or lustful, but evolved to mean "arrogantly pert" in the 1700s.
I wanted the contrast with Cobel and James Le Gros [as Cobel's childhood friend, Hampton] because I'm not taking drugs [Cobel refers to Hampton as a “huff peddler,” referring to ether abuse].
Peddle or solicit means to sell, offer for sale, or solicit orders for goods or services upon the streets, sidewalks, or alleys of the City, or by going from dwelling to dwelling or place to place whether by foot or by other means of transportation.
“any hawker, pedlar, petty chapman, tinker, caster of metals, mender of chairs, or other person who, without any horse, or other beast of bearing or drawing burden, travels and trades on foot and goes from town to town or to other men's house, carrying or selling or exposing for sale any goods, wares, merchandise ...
Vendors who proclaim aloud the availability of their goods on the street hawk them. Such people are called “hawkers.” The latter word is used metaphorically of people or businesses aggressively promoting anything for sale. They are not “hocking their wares” (or worse, “hocking their wears”), but “hawking their wares.”
