Waddle
['wɒd(ə)l] or ['wɑdl]
Definition
(noun.) walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other; 'ducks walk with a waddle'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
(v. t.) To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Toddle, tottle, waggle.
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Definition
v.i. to take short steps and move from side to side in walking.—n. a clumsy rocking gait.—n. Wadd′ler.—adv. Wadd′lingly with a waddling gait.
Typist: Louis
Examples
- I've got no time to procure guides at this time of night, indeed; and she waddled off after the rest of the passengers. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Mr. Winkle mounted to the box, the fat boy waddled to the same perch, and fell fast asleep instantly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It waddled in on its ten short legs, and squatted down before the girl like an obedient puppy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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