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waddling, ppl. a.|ˈwɒdlɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
That waddles (see the verb).
1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. iii. verse 17. xii. §5. 90 Thus the little wadling child comes to go strongly, by going often. 1678Otway Friendship in F. iv. i, You..Addle-pated, wadling brace of Puppies. 1714Gay Sheph. Week iii. 62 Let the fox..join in wedlock with the waddling goose. 1729T. Cooke Tales, etc. 96 A short squad Figure, with a wadling Pace. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola lvi, She saw..a little child..pause from a waddling run and look around him.
Hence ˈwaddlingly adv.
1882O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. i. 23 Great flocks of wild geese marched waddlingly on either side. |