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Thesaurus: waddle

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 wa…

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  1. v. i. 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.
  2. v. t. To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
  3. n. walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other
  4. v. walk unsteadily, with short steps
  5. 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. To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [R.] Drayton.
  6. To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to theother, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily andtotteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when hebegins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak.She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.
  7. n:9/v:91 n. walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other