Waddle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To walk with short steps that tilt the body from side to side.
  • verb-intransitive. To walk heavily and clumsily with a pronounced sway.
  • n. A swaying gait: the waddle of ducks.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A swaying gait.
  • v. To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. 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
  • v. To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To sway or rock from side to side in walking; move with short, quick steps, throwing the body from one side to the other; walk in a tottering or vacillating manner; toddle.
  • Synonyms Waddle, Toddle. Waddling is a kind of ungainly walking produced by the great weight or natural clumsiness of the walker; toddling is the movement of a child in learning to walk.
  • To tread down by wading or waddling through, as high grass.
  • n. The act of walking with a swaying or rocking motion from side to side; a clumsy, rocking gait, with short steps; a toddle.
  • A dialectal form of wattle.
  • n. The wane of the moon.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. walk unsteadily
  • n. walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other
  • Verb Form
    waddled    waddles    waddling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    walk    gait   
    Form
    waddled    waddling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    toddle    stumble   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    caudal    coddle    model    remodel    toddle    twaddle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    toddle    shooting-coat    simp    hector    sailmaker    life-jacket    baloney    philomath    balderdash    meddler