English-Thai Dictionary

waddle

N การ เดิน เป๋ ไป เป๋ มา  kan-doen-pea-pai-pea-ma

 

waddle

VI เดิน เป๋ ไป เป๋ มา  toddle totter wiggle doen-pea-pai-pea-ma

 

waddler

N คน เดิน เป๋ ไป เป๋ มา  kon-doen-pea-pai-pea-ma

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WADDLE

v.i. 1. To move one way and the other in walking; to deviate to one side and the other; to vacillate; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; very fat peole walk with a kind of waddling pace. So we say, a duck or a goose waddles.
2. To walk with a waddling motion.
And hardly waddles forth to cool

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

WADDLE

Wad "dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Waddling. ]Etym: [Freq. of wade; cf. AS. wædlian to beg, from wadan to go. See Wade. ]

 

Defn: 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. She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.

 

WADDLE

WADDLE Wad "dle, v. t.

 

Defn: To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [R.] Drayton.

 

WADDLER

WADDLER Wad "dler, n.

 

Defn: One who, or that which, waddles.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

waddle

wad dle |ˈwädl ˈwɑdl | ▶verb [ no obj. ] walk with short steps and a clumsy swaying motion: three geese waddled across the road. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a waddling gait: I walk with a waddle. DERIVATIVES wad dler |ˈwädlər, ˈwädl -ər |noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: perhaps a frequentative of wade .

 

Oxford Dictionary

waddle

wad ¦dle |ˈwɒd (ə )l | ▶verb [ no obj., with adverbial of direction ] walk with short steps and a clumsy swaying motion: three geese waddled across the road. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a waddling gait: I walk with a waddle. DERIVATIVES waddler noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: perhaps a frequentative of wade .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

waddle

waddle verb after seven weeks in a hospital bed, it's normal to waddle a bit: toddle, dodder, totter, wobble, shuffle; duckwalk.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

waddle

waddle verb he waddled forward to greet her: toddle, dodder, wobble, totter, shamble; sway, rock, lurch, limp, shuffle, stumble, reel, stagger; duckwalk, walk like a duck; informal waggle.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

waddle

wad dle /wɑ́d (ə )l |wɔ́d (ə )l /動詞 自動詞 よちよち [よたよた, のっしのっし ]歩く .名詞 C 〖通例単数形で 〗よちよち [よたよた ]歩き .