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Waddle
waddle
(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
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I. intransitive verb (~d; 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 ~ • ~r noun II. noun Date: 1691 an awkward clumsy swaying gait WADDLER noun see waddle I ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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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 ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ v to walk with short steps, swinging from one side to another like a duck + along/around etc (Julie came waddling up the path, eight months pregnant.) - waddle n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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