Word Meanings - WADDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: WADDLE
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.
Related words: (words related to WADDLE)
- CHILDSHIP
The state or relation of being a child. - GOOSEFOOT
A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed. - GOOSERY
1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton. - CHILDISHNESS
The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect. - SWAYING
An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses. Crabb. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - CLUMSILY
In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily. - CHILDED
Furnished with a child. - CHILDBIRTH
The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - SWAY-BACKED
Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals. - ALONGSIDE
Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree. - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - CHILDISH
1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who - CHILD STUDY
A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - STEPSTONE
A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - UPSWAY
To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club. Sir W. Scott. - GODCHILD
One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - WAY-GOOSE
See 2 - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless.