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Toddle

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tod⋅dle

  [tod-l] verb, -dled, -dling, noun
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–verb (used without object)
1. to move with short, unsteady steps, as a young child.
–noun
2. the act of toddling.
3. an unsteady gait.
Origin:
1490–1500; to(tter) + (wa)ddle
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tod·dle   (tŏd'l)   
intr.v.   tod·dled, tod·dling, tod·dles

  1. To walk with short, unsteady steps.

  2. To walk leisurely; stroll.

n.  An unsteady gait.

[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

toddle 
"to run or walk with short, unsteady steps," c.1600, Scottish and northern British, of uncertain origin, possibly a back-formation of toddler, or related to totter (1534); an earlier sense of "to toy, play" is found c.1500. Toddler "toddling child" is first recorded 1793.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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