Crossword clues for waddling
waddling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waddle \Wad"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waddled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Waddling.] [Freq. of wade; cf. AS. w[ae]dlian to beg, from
wadan to go. See Wade.]
To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to
the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily
and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child
waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
--Shak.
She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace.
--Young.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who waddles. vb. (present participle of waddle English)
Usage examples of "waddling".
Fully armed now, she turned and began waddling across the lawn on short, thick legs, walking slowly to allow herself time to intone the Our Fathers, the Hail Marys, and the Glory Bes in quiet Spanish.
How many times have they come waddling up to you out of the darkness, like friends, looking for you.
Flushed and perspiring, his face had an eager look of innocence as he turned to the waddling detective.
Jill ran forward and intervened just as the cook came waddling and yelling out of the kitchen.
Then she led the way down the hall, the dwarf waddling as best he could in order to keep up.
She turned and began to walk away, the little dwarf waddling as fast as he could to keep up with her.
Giles Habibula came waddling anxiously to his side, through the transplanted shrubbery that made the garden a fragrant bit of the far-off Earth.
The fat man came waddling toward him, flinching visibly from the nearness of that dreadful precipice, yet beaming with a surprised relief.
When his dark eyes found the waddling old man in gray, however, he stopped abruptly.
Yet he came waddling through the great steel valves as confidently as if he had come to take command of the station.
This fellow, bald and stout, left the camp and came hurrying back to town, waddling rather than running, his scarlet cloak flapping in the morning wind.
The most surprising witness of all, however, came waddling along just as the trial was about to begin: Arzosah, who managed tofindenough room for her massive self behind Rhodry.
Ebenezer Duck and his band of waddling followers rushed up to her, with Ebenezer squawking his displeasure at having to wait so long for the grain she usually scattered first thing in the morning.
Ebenezer Duck and his faithful flock were waddling around the backyard, peacefully hunting insects.
Out into the sunlight shambled the first of the dragons to reach the top of the ramp - fifty feet of slate-gray scales, waddling briskly on bowed, muscular legs and splayed.