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waddle

3 definitions • 4 examples
1
(usually of a person or animal with short legs and a fat body) to walk with short steps, moving the body from one side to the other:

Examples:

The ducks waddled down to the river.
A short, fat waiter waddled over.
2
(usually of a person or animal with short legs and a fat body) a way of walking with short steps, moving the body from one side to the other:

Examples:

With a quack and a waddle, the duck continued on its way.
Towards the end of her pregnancy, she developed a waddle.
3
to walk with short steps, swinging the body from one side to the other, like a duck (= a bird with short legs that lives by water)

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