Waddle

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  • intransitive verb. To walk with short steps that tilt the body from side to side.
  • intransitive verb. To walk heavily and clumsily with a pronounced sway.
  • noun. A swaying gait.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of walking with a swaying or rocking motion from side to side; a clumsy, rocking gait, with short steps; a toddle.
  • 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.
  • A dialectal form of wattle.
  • noun. The wane of the moon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
  • intransitive verb. 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
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A swaying gait.
  • verb. To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. walk unsteadily
  • noun. walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other
  • Word Usage
    "They sport strange growths on their neck and faces that even have odd names: the waddle is the loose skin on the neck and the snood is the fleshy protuberance that grows from the forehead and dangles over the beak."
    Form
    waddled  waddling  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gait  walk  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    caudal  coddle  model  remodel  toddle  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    amble  andante  barge  bowl along  bundle  
    verb-form