waddlesome

waddlesome

English

Etymology

waddle +‎ -some

Adjective

waddlesome (comparative more waddlesome, superlative most waddlesome)

1. Characterised by a waddling gait.
   • 2001, The Way of the Wanderer: Discover Your True Self Through Travel

     I was angry with my bubble-brained antics and my waddlesome sloth, with my guides, with the thunder, with this stupid maze of rocks.

   • 2021, Philip D'Anieri, The Appalachian Trail: A Biography (page 199)

     Thru-hiking the AT, he wrote in the opening pages of the ensuing book, would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth.

   • 2021, Irvin S. Cobb, Old Judge Priest

     Beholding his waddlesome approach out of the tail of her eye, the white animal would whinny a dignified and conservative welcome.