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Definitions: Waddle |
WaddleNoun1. Walking with a waddling gait; walking with short steps and the weight shifting from one foot to the other. Verb1. Walk unsteadily, as of small children. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "waddle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
Synonyms: WaddleSynonyms: coggle (v), dodder (v), paddle (v), toddle (v), totter (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deviation | Fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle; (oscillate); go out of one's way; (perform a circuit); lose one's way. |
Slowness | Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Waddle |
| English words defined with "waddle": Waddled, Waddling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "waddle": RESCOUNTERS. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Waddle" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 53.13% of the time. "Waddle" is used about 64 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 53.13% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 17.19% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.06% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.06% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (common) | 1.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 64 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "waddle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Waddle | Last name | 2,000 | 5,597 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "waddle": waddle like a duck ♦ walk with a waddle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "waddle": waddle-alike. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scott waddle | 13 |
waddle | 8 |
reed waddle | 7 |
chris waddle | 4 |
dee waddle | 3 |
tom waddle | 3 |
fence waddle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "waddle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tundje (agitation, beating, flourish, jar, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jolting, misdoubt, nutation, oscillation, reel, rumble-tumble, shake, shaking, shimmy, sway, swing, teeter, thrill, tossing, wag, waggle, wave, wiggle, wiggle-waggle), tundem (budge, dodder, jiggle, jumble, niddle-noddle, nod, nutate, oscillate, quake, reel, rock, stagger, sway, swing, wabble, waggle, wamble, wobble), eci duke u tundur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تهادى (plod, stagger, wag, waggle, wobble), تهاد (wobble), تبختر (loll, lope, mince, parade, ponce about, prance, strut, swagger), المتبختر (strutting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стъпвам като патица, клатя се като патица, вървя като патица, походка с клатушкане встрани, поклащане (shake, wabble, waggle, wobble), поклащам се (rock, sway, waggle, wobble), патешка походка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 跩 (swagger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přikolébat se, kolébat se (rock, shamble, twinkle, wabble, wag, wobble), kolébá chùze. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کج وسنگین راه رفتن , اردک وارراه رفتن , راه رفتن اردک وار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaappua (rock, sway, swing), taapertaa (toddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | se dandiner (wag), marcher comme un canard, dandinement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | watscheln (paddle, shamble, to shamble, toddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοντοπερίπατω, σείομαι (quake, quiver, shimmy, wabble, wag, waggle, wave, wigwag, wobble), βαδίζων με μικρά βήματα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ללכת כברוז, "ליכ" כברוז. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kacsázás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sculettare, camminare ondeggiando, camminare dondolandosi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shooyl leaystey, shooyl gollrish thunnag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | addleway gingar (sway), gingado, bambolear (dingle-dangle, shamble). (various references) se clãtina (falter, lurch, quake, reel, shake, stagger, swerve, swing, totter, vacillate, waggle, wobble), mers legãnat (roll), merge legãnat (paddle), merge clãtinându-se (halt). (various references) ходить вразвалку, переваливаться. (various references) gegati se (plod, stagger, toddle, wag), geganje (plod, saunter, shuffle, stagger). (various references) nalguear, caminar a pasos pequeños, anadeo, anadear. (various references) vaggande (wag). (various references) paytak paytak yürüyüş, paytak paytak yürümek (shamble), badi badi yürümek (paddle, shamble), badi badi yürüme (shamble). (various references) moяmuldamak. (various references) хода перевальцем, шкандибати (cramble, hitch, hobble, hobble along, stump, toddle, waggle, wallow). (various references) dáng đi núng nính, dáng đi lạch bạch như vịt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "waddle": waddled, waddler, waddlers, waddles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "waddle": swaddle, twaddle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "waddle": swaddled, swaddles, twaddled, twaddler, twaddlers, twaddles. (additional references) | |
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"Waddle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daddle, Naddle, Wadal, waddel, waddley, wadie, wadle, Wandel, wandle, weddel, Weddle, Wendle, Werdel, widdel, widdle, widgle, widle, woddle, wuddle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "waddle" (pronounced wÄ"dul) |
| 5 | w Ä" d u l | twaddle. |
| 4 | -Ä" d u l | caudal, Coddle, model, remodel, toddle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, bindle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, Brindle, bundle, caboodle, candle, caudle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, dwindle, feudal, fiddle, fondle, genocidal, girdle, handle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, intermodal, intertidal, kindle, ladle, manhandle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, mishandle, modal, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, panhandle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, rekindle, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, Rundle, saddle, sandal, scandal, Seidel, sidle, spindle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, swindle, tidal, trundle, Tweedle, twiddle, unbundle, vandal, Wedel, widdle, Windle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dawdle. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-l-w" | |
-1 letter: addle, dawed, dedal, laded, lawed, waded, waled, weald. | |
-2 letters: awed, dale, dead, deal, lade, lead, lewd, wade, wale, weal, weld. | |
-3 letters: add, ale, awe, awl, dad, dal, daw, del, dew, eld, lad, law, lea, led, wad, wae, wed. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, al, aw, de, ed, el, la, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-l-w" | |
+1 letter: dawdled, dawdler, dawdles, drawled, swaddle, twaddle, waddled, waddler, waddles. | |
+2 letters: dawdlers, declawed, swaddled, swaddles, twaddled, twaddler, twaddles, waddlers. | |
+3 letters: dewlapped, saddlebow, twaddlers. | |
+4 letters: candlewood, disallowed, downloaded, downplayed, downscaled, dreamworld, duckwalked, meadowland, saddlebows, wildcatted, windlassed, wonderland, woodlander. | |
+5 letters: bladderwort, candlewoods, dreamworlds, meadowlands, swellheaded, warmblooded, wonderlands, woodlanders. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 64 64 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -.. -.. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01100100 01100100 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a d d l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0064 0064 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)576770707871 |
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