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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- 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.
- v. t. To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
- n. walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other
- v. walk unsteadily, with short steps
- 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.
- 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.
- n:9/v:91 n. walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other