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wad⋅dle

  [wod-l] verb, -dled, -dling, noun
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–verb (used without object)
1. to walk with short steps, swaying or rocking from side to side, as a duck.
2. to move in any similar, slow, rocking manner; wobble: The ship waddled into port.
–noun
3. an act or instance of waddling, esp. a waddling gait.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see wade, -le; cf. G watteln

Related forms:
waddler, noun
wad⋅dling⋅ly, adverb
waddly, adjective
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wad·dle   (wŏd'l)   
intr.v.   wad·dled, wad·dling, wad·dles

  1. To walk with short steps that tilt the body from side to side.

  2. To walk heavily and clumsily with a pronounced sway.

n.  A swaying gait: the waddle of ducks.

[Frequentative of wade.]
wad'dler n.
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Word Origin & History

waddle  (v.)
"to walk with short steps," 1592, frequentative of wade. The noun is recorded from 1691.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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