Waddle

waddle
    n 1: walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one
         foot to the other; "ducks walk with a waddle"
    v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: {toddle},
         {coggle}, {totter}, {dodder}, {paddle}, {waddle}]
    

Waddle \Wad"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waddled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Waddling}.] [Freq. of wade; cf. AS. w[ae]dlian to beg, from
   wadan to go. See {Wade}.]
   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.
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         She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. --Young.
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Waddle \Wad"dle\, v. t.
   To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through
   it. [R.] --Drayton.
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110 Moby Thesaurus words for "waddle":
      amble, andante, barge, bowl along, bundle, claudicate,
      claudication, clump, crawl, creep, dead march, dogtrot, drag,
      drag along, drag out, droop, flounce, foot, footpace, footslog,
      funeral march, gait, gallop, go dead slow, go slow, halt,
      hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, idle, inch, inch along, jog,
      jog trot, jog-trot, jolt, jump, laze, leisurely gait, limp,
      lock step, lumber, lumbering pace, lunge, lurch, mince,
      mincing steps, mosey, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod,
      poke, poke along, prance, rack, roll, sashay, saunter, scuff,
      scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle,
      single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slow march,
      slow motion, slowness, stagger, stagger along, stalk, stamp, step,
      stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut,
      stump, swagger, swing, tittup, toddle, toddle along, totter,
      totter along, traipse, tread, trip, trot, trudge, velocity, walk,
      wamble, wiggle, wobble, worm, worm along