Read full poem →So four of them went up to the top of it, and looked about them; while the
other three waddled up and down, and repeated poetry, and their last six
lessons in arithmetic, geography, and cookery.
Dictionary Entry
To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side.
Origin
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Common Phrases
over waddledoff waddledaway waddleddown waddledback waddledwaddled duckswaddled woman
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Poetry examples for “waddled”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →He bore a cane of price, with riband tied,
And a fat spaniel waddled at his side.
To every being whom he met he gave
Read full poem →2
Up from the deep dusk of a cleared spot on the edge of the forest a mellow glow arose and spread fan-wise into the low-hanging heavens. And all around the air was heavy with the scent of boiling cane. A large pile of cane-stalks lay like ribboned shadows upon the ground. A mule, harnessed to a pole, trudged lazily round and round the pivot of the grinder. Beneath a swaying oil lamp, a Negro alternately whipped out at the mule, and fed cane-stalks to the grinder. A fat boy waddled pails of fresh ground juice between the grinder and the boiling stove. Steam came from the copper boiling pan. The scent of cane came from the copper pan and drenched the forest and the hill that sloped to factory town, beneath its fragrance. It drenched the men in circle seated around the stove. Some of them chewed at the white pulp of stalks, but there was no need for them to, if all they wanted was to taste the cane. One tasted it in factory town. And from factory town one could see the soft haze thrown by the glowing stove upon the low-hanging heavens.
Read full poem →Little trotty wagtail, he waddled in the mud,
And left his little footmarks, trample where he would.
Read full poem →He took his snuff, and wheezed a greeting,
And waddled off to mother's meeting;
I hung my head upon my chest,