waddle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WADDLE, verb intransitive 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
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