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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
toddle
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He is just now beginning to toddle around the house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Catching sight of the two arriving, the old fellow, adjusting his robe, came toddling forward to show them around.
▪ For my three children, walking, toddling and cycling in the park has become a much more pleasant experience.
▪ He becomes sullen toward his wife, and for the first time he roughs up his toddling son.
▪ I toddled off to the kitchen.
▪ I toddled through the gate and made for the tree because it was studded all over with soft dark fruit.
▪ I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal, healthy three-year-old boy does.
▪ This huge machine toddled in a courtyard, deliberating at each step.
▪ When I last saw him, he was fourteen months old and just beginning to toddle around without falling down too much.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toddle

Toddle \Tod"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Toddling.] [Akin to tottle, totter.] To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.

Toddle

Toddle \Tod"dle\, n. A toddling walk.
--Trollope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
toddle

"to run or walk with short, unsteady steps," c.1600, Scottish and northern British, of uncertain origin, possibly related to totter (1530s); an earlier sense of "to toy, play" is found c.1500. Related: Toddled; toddling.

Wiktionary
toddle

vb. 1 To walk unsteadily, as a small child does. 2 To walk in a carefree manner.

WordNet
toddle

v. walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]

Usage examples of "toddle".

I am here, he willnae come near ye, gin ye dinnae go tae toddling tae him like a silly hawkie tae the slaughter.

In a matter of a minute they had crept through infancy, toddled through toddlerhood, walked through prepubescence, strutted through adolescence, stopped at young adulthood.

I was in the mood to flick through the pages of 99 Unretouched Scandinavian Virgins Deflowered In Full Color and then toddle off to my antique spool bed.

The cloak had not put out the fire entirely, though, and quenching the flames that sprang up here and there had entailed a great deal of excitement and rushing about, in the course of which Orrie McCallum was misplaced, toddled off, and fell into the groundhog kiln, where he was foundmany frantic minutes laterby Rollo.

I tell you to package up your silver geegaw and toddle over to pay your respects to the new countess.

She scrambled up on her two-year-old legs and toddled toward Kerrie, arms outstretched.

Then she came out, and after her toddled two little otters, full of wonder at the big bright world, full of fear at the river.

She was talking on the phone when Jordie toddled out the screen door and fell in the pool.

By this time, also, other ministerial babykins had come toddling into the march in my rear, to share with me the soberness and separation of our calling.

The baby bear toddled towards him again, this time chortling joyfully to itself that Genhh now exuded a totally different, and much more preferable scent: one compounded of many subtle smells.

As a tiny girl, Anne had toddled about the vast gardens alongside her papa, clutching her own tiny trowel and shovel Jock had instructed Cuffy, the blacksmith, to make for a child's small hands.

Myre, on the other hand, seemed disinclined to do more than toddle to the edge of her little nursery-cave, or to the store of torn-up meat Alara had left for her.

Silla, already up, had toddled across the room and now sat under the table, eating a corn cake.

He could creep faster than a fence lizard and toddle along fairly well on his chubby legs.

I come back here”—thank God Leo’s men hadn’t followed him then—“and Leo the freaking Claw toddles off to see his business partner and says, ‘Yo, yo, yo, I think I’ve found Bashir’s missing girl, but I’m a little understaffed.