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Webster 1913 Edition
Waddle
Wad′dle
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Waddled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Waddling
.] 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
. Shak.
She drawls her words, and
waddles
in her pace. Young.
Wad′dle
,Verb.
T.
To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
[R.]
Drayton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Waddle
WADDLE
, v.i.1.
To move one way and the other in walking; to deviate to one side and the other; to vacillate; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; very fat peole walk with a kind of waddling pace. So we say, a duck or a goose waddles.2.
To walk with a waddling motion.And hardly waddles forth to cool