PEDDLERY

Etymology

Noun

peddlery (usually uncountable, plural peddleries)

(obsolete) The trade or goods of a peddler.

(obsolete) trickery

Source: Wiktionary


Ped"dler*y, n. Etym: [Written also pedlary and pedlery.]

1. The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.

2. Trifling; trickery. [Obs.] "Look . . . into these their deceitful peddleries." Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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