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daddle
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?dæd??/
Etymology 1
Probably dade +? -le.
Verb
daddle (third-person singular simple present daddles, present participle daddling, simple past and past participle daddled)
- (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle
- 1869, Thomas Collins, The life of the rev. Thos. Collins
- I had to wait an hour at the station for the coming of his train. It was passed pleasantly in reading, ' The Victory Won,' an interesting narrative of the salvation of a sceptical physician. When uncle arrived, he and I daddled along a pretty narrow lane.
- 1869, Thomas Collins, The life of the rev. Thos. Collins
- To diddle (cheat)
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- "Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But I'm a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again. I'm not afraid on 'em. I'll shake out another reef, matey, and daddle 'em again."
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
Etymology 2
Noun
daddle (plural daddles)
- (slang, obsolete) The hand or fist; used in the phrase "tip us your daddle" meaning "give me your hand".
Derived terms
- diddle-daddle
- tip the daddle
Anagrams
- addled
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saddle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sæd?l/, [?sædl?]
- Rhymes: -æd?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English sadel, from Old English sadol, from Proto-Germanic *sadulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sod-d?lo-, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”) + *-d?lom (instrumental suffix). Cognate with Scots sadil, Saterland Frisian Soadel, West Frisian seal, Dutch zadel, Low German Sadel, German Sattel, Danish sadel, Swedish sadel, Icelandic söðull, Russian ?????? (sedló).
Noun
saddle (plural saddles)
- A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
- An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
- A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- 1870, The Cook and Housewife's Manual (5th edition)
- A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout: or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup […]
- 1870, The Cook and Housewife's Manual (5th edition)
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 483:
- With Lizzie leading, they scrambled quickly over several false peaks towards the saddle.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 483:
- (mining) A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, especially in Australia.
- The raised floorboard in a doorway.
- (construction) A small tapered or sloped area structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
- (nautical) A block of wood, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- (engineering) A part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- Any of the saddle-like markings on a boa constrictor.
- A saddle shoe.
- 1972, Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (page 56)
- 'Brown-and-white saddles for Fudge and loafers for Peter.'
'OK, Peter... let's see how those feet have grown.'
I slipped out of my old shoes and stood up.
- 'Brown-and-white saddles for Fudge and loafers for Peter.'
- 1972, Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (page 56)
- (music, lutherie) That part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations via the bridge to the soundboard.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English sadelen, from Old English sadolian, from Proto-Germanic *sadul?n?.
Verb
saddle (third-person singular simple present saddles, present participle saddling, simple past and past participle saddled)
- (transitive) To put a saddle on (an animal).
- To get into a saddle.
- (transitive) To burden or encumber.
Translations
See also
- sidle
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (sadoru)
References
- “saddle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- addles, daleds
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