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waddle
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Waddle
(gcide) | 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.
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She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. --Young.
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Waddle
(gcide) | Waddle \Wad"dle\, v. t.
To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through
it. [R.] --Drayton.
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waddle
(wn) | waddle
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] |
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swaddle
(encz) | swaddle,plena n: Zdeněk Brožswaddle,plenka n: Zdeněk Brožswaddle,zavinout dítě Zdeněk Brož |
twaddle
(encz) | twaddle,kec n: Zdeněk Brožtwaddle,žvást n: Zdeněk Brož |
twaddler
(encz) | twaddler, n: |
waddler
(encz) | waddler, n: |
Swaddle
(gcide) | Swaddle \Swad"dle\, n. [AS. swe?il, swe?el, fr. swe?ain to bind.
See Swathe.]
Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a
swaddling band.
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They put me in bed in all my swaddles. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]Swaddle \Swad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swaddled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Swaddling.]
1. To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with
clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to
swaddle a baby.
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They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces
of linen. --Addison.
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2. To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.] --Hudibras.
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Swaddlebill
(gcide) | Swaddlebill \Swad"dle*bill`\, n. (Zool.)
The shoveler. [Local, U.S.]
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Swaddled
(gcide) | Swaddle \Swad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swaddled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Swaddling.]
1. To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with
clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to
swaddle a baby.
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They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces
of linen. --Addison.
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2. To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.] --Hudibras.
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Swaddler
(gcide) | Swaddler \Swad"dler\, n.
A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. --Shipley.
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Twaddle
(gcide) | Twaddle \Twad"dle\, v. i. & t. [See Twattle.]
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties
are decayed; to prate; to prattle. --Stanyhurst.
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Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
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I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of
the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and
fighting with fists now-a-days. --T. Hughes.
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Twaddler
(gcide) | Twaddler \Twad"dler\, n.
One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose
faculties are decayed.
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Unswaddle
(gcide) | Unswaddle \Un*swad"dle\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + swaddle.]
To take a swaddle from; to unswathe.
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Waddle
(gcide) | 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.
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She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. --Young.
[1913 Webster]Waddle \Wad"dle\, v. t.
To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through
it. [R.] --Drayton.
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Waddled
(gcide) | 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.
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She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. --Young.
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Waddler
(gcide) | Waddler \Wad"dler\, n.
One who, or that which, waddles.
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swaddle
(wn) | swaddle
v 1: wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant" [syn:
swaddle, swathe] |
twaddle
(wn) | twaddle
n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney,
boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, {tittle-
tattle}, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab,
gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble] |
twaddler
(wn) | twaddler
n 1: someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle |
waddler
(wn) | waddler
n 1: someone who walks with a waddling gait; "fat waddlers who
walk like pigeons" |
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