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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WADDLE, v.i.
1. To move one way and the other in walking; to deviate to one side and the other; to vacillate; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; very fat peole walk with a kind of waddling pace. So we say, a duck or a goose waddles.
2. To walk with a waddling motion.
And hardly waddles forth to cool

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other; "ducks walk with a waddle" v
1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]

Merriam Webster's

I. intransitive verb (waddled; waddling) Etymology: frequentative of wade Date: 1592 1. to walk with short steps swinging the forepart of the body from side to side 2. to move clumsily in a manner suggesting a waddle • waddler noun II. noun Date: 1691 an awkward clumsy swaying gait

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. walk with short steps and a swaying motion, like a stout short-legged person or a bird with short legs set far apart (e.g. a duck or goose). --n. a waddling gait. Derivatives: waddler n. Etymology: perh. frequent. of WADE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Waddle Wad"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Waddling.] [Freq. of wade; cf. AS. w[ae]dlian to beg, from wadan to go. See Wade.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Waddle Wad"dle, v. t. To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [R.] --Drayton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(waddles, waddling, waddled) To waddle somewhere means to walk there with short, quick steps, swinging slightly from side to side. A person or animal that waddles usually has short legs and a fat body. McGinnis pushed himself laboriously out of the chair and waddled to the window... VERB: V prep/adv

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Toddle, tottle, waggle.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To go like a duck. To waddle out of Change alley as a lame duck; a term for one who has not been able to pay his gaming debts, called his differences, on the Stock Exchange, and therefore absents himself from it.

Moby Thesaurus

amble, andante, barge, bowl along, bundle, claudicate, claudication, clump, crawl, creep, dead march, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, droop, flounce, foot, footpace, footslog, funeral march, gait, gallop, go dead slow, go slow, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, idle, inch, inch along, jog, jog trot, jog-trot, jolt, jump, laze, leisurely gait, limp, lock step, lumber, lumbering pace, 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, slow march, slow motion, slowness, stagger, stagger along, stalk, stamp, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, swagger, swing, tittup, toddle, toddle along, totter, totter along, traipse, tread, trip, trot, trudge, velocity, walk, wamble, wiggle, wobble, worm, worm along