waddle
verb (used without object)
to walk with short steps, swaying or rocking from side to side, as a duck.
waddler
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a word derived from
waddle.
Example Sentences
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An ungainly waddler ashore, Castor canadensis spends 80% of its life in water, where it's as agile as a 50-lb. minnow.
From Time Magazine Archive
The waddler prudently retired, but the Spitz, with all the disproportionate courage of a knight of old attacking a fire-breathing dragon, lanced himself in front of the car.
From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
"Oh, is it you, old waddler?" said she; "I weep because my golden ball has fallen into the well."
From Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Lucy Crane
Now what’s the use, Of letting that old waddler have Such a pretty thing as that?
From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Daphne Dale
So, like a good sensible waddler, he was content.
From The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 by Various
