What does waddle mean?
Definitions for waddle
ˈwɒd lwad·dle
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word waddle.
Princeton's WordNet
waddleverb
walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other
"ducks walk with a waddle"
toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddleverb
walk unsteadily
"small children toddle"
Wiktionary
waddlenoun
A swaying gait.
waddleverb
To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side.
Etymology: First known use in English in a version of the Song of Roland around the year 1400. (Source:OED online)
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Waddleverb
To shake, in walking from side to side; to deviate in motion from a right line.
Etymology: wagghelen, Dutch, to waggle; whence, by a casual corruption, waddle.
She could have run and waddled all about. William Shakespeare.
The strutting petticoat smooths and levels all distinctions; while I cannot but be troubled to see so many well-shaped, innocent virgins bloated up, and waddling up and down like big-bellied women. Spectator, №. 127.
The farmer’s goose,
Grown fat with corn and sitting still,
Can scarce get o’er the barn-door sill,
And hardly waddles forth to cool
Her belly in the neighb’ring pool. Jonathan Swift.A dabchick waddles through the copse
On feet and wings, and flies, and wades, and hops. Alexander Pope.Dulness, of business the directing soul,
To human heads like biass to the bowl;
Which, as more pond’rous, makes their aim more true,
Obliquely waddling to the mark in view. Alexander Pope.
ChatGPT
waddle
Waddle generally refers to a distinctive walking style characterized by short steps and a side-to-side motion, often similar to how ducks and penguins walk. It can also be used as a verb to describe the action of moving in such a manner.
Webster Dictionary
Waddleverb
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
Waddleverb
to trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it
Etymology: [Freq. of wade; cf. AS. wdlian to beg, from wadan to go. See Wade.]
Wikidata
Waddle
Waddle is a populated place in Patton Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, about 3 miles northwest of State College, and located on Buffalo Run Road.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Waddle
wod′l, v.i. to take short steps and move from side to side in walking.—n. a clumsy, rocking gait.—n. Wadd′ler.—adv. Wadd′lingly, with a waddling gait. [Perh. wade.]
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Waddle
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
WADDLE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Waddle is ranked #7940 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Waddle surname appeared 4,167 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Waddle.
91% or 3,794 total occurrences were White.
3.8% or 159 total occurrences were Black.
2.2% or 92 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.7% or 73 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.7% or 30 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.4% or 19 total occurrences were Asian.
Anagrams for waddle »
dawdle
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of waddle in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of waddle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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