waddle
See also: Waddle
English
WOTD – 29 January 2009
Etymology
From Middle English *wadlen, frequentative form of waden, equivalent to wade + -le. Compare Old High German wadalōn (“to roam; wander”), Middle High German wadelen, wedelen (“to wander; rove”), German wedeln (“to waggle”).First known use in English in a version of the Song of Roland around the year 1400. (Source:OED online)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwɒd.əl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈwɑd.əl/, [ˈwɑɾ.ɫ̩]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒdəl
- Rhymes: -ædəl
Noun
waddle (plural waddles)
- A squat, swaying gait.
- the waddle of a duck
Translations
swaying gait
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Verb
waddle (third-person singular simple present waddles, present participle waddling, simple past and past participle waddled)
- (intransitive) To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side.
- (intransitive) To move slowly.
- 2018 December 19, Drachinifel, SMS Nassau - Guide 007 (Human Voice), archived from the original on 18 December 2022, retrieved 18 December 2022, 4:55 from the start:
- Now, on the bright side, things weren't all bad; they had commendably-thick belt armor, which was 12 inches thickness, and they had a very large number of subdivided watertight compartments, which would make them very durable. Due to their being quite fat, they could also turn very quickly, even if they were waddling along by the end of the turn.
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Translations
To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side
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Anagrams
- Dewald, dawdle, dwaled, walded