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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb (toddled; toddling) Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1600 1. to walk with short tottering steps in the manner of a young child 2. to take a stroll ; saunter • toddle noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. 1 walk with short unsteady steps like those of a small child. 2 colloq. a (often foll. by round, to, etc.) take a casual or leisurely walk. b (usu. foll. by off) depart. --n. 1 a toddling walk. 2 colloq. a stroll or short walk. Etymology: 16th-c. todle (Sc. & N.Engl.), of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Toddle Tod"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Toddling.] [Akin to tottle, totter.] To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Toddle Tod"dle, n. A toddling walk. --Trollope.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(toddles, toddling, toddled) When a child toddles, it walks unsteadily with short quick steps. ...once your baby starts toddling... She fell while toddling around. VERB: V, V adv/prep

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Tottle, walk unsteadily (as a child).

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To walk away. The cove was touting, but stagging the traps he toddled; be was looking out, and feeing the officers he walked away.

Moby Thesaurus

amble, barge, bowl along, bundle, claudicate, clump, crawl, creep, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, droop, flounce, foot, footslog, gait, gallop, go dead slow, go slow, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, idle, inch, inch along, jog, jog-trot, jolt, jump, laze, limp, lock step, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, mincing steps, mosey, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod, poke, poke along, prance, rack, roll, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, stagger, stagger along, stalk, stamp, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, swagger, swing, tittup, toddle along, totter, totter along, traipse, tread, trip, trot, trudge, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, wiggle, wobble, worm, worm along