Word Meanings - WADDLINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a waddling manner.

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• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• 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
• WADDLINGLY
  In a waddling manner.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• WADDLER
  One who, or that which, waddles.
• SWADDLE
  Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• SWADDLER
  A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• SWADDLEBILL
  The shoveler.
• TWADDLE
  To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• UNSWADDLE
  To take a swaddle from; to unswathe.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• TWADDLING
  a. & n. from Twaddle, v.
• SWADDLING
  from Swaddle, v. Swaddling band, Swaddling cloth, or Swaddling clout, a band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Luke ii. 12.
• TWADDLER
  One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.