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waddle
English
Etymology
From Middle English *wadlen, frequentative form of waden, equivalent to wade +? -le. Compare Old High German wadal?n (“to roam; wander”), Middle High German wadelen, wedelen (“to wander; rove”), German wedeln (“to waggle”).First known use in English in a version of the Song of Roland around the year 1400. (Source:OED online)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?w?d.?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?w?d.?l/, [?w??.??]
- Rhymes: -?d?l
- Rhymes: -æd?l
Noun
waddle (plural waddles)
- A squat, swaying gait.
- the waddle of a duck
Translations
Verb
waddle (third-person singular simple present waddles, present participle waddling, simple past and past participle waddled)
- (intransitive) To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side.
Translations
Anagrams
- Dewald, dawdle, dwaled, walded
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raddle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æd?l/
- Rhymes: -æd?l
Etymology 1
From a variation of reddle, ruddle. Related to red.
Noun
raddle (countable and uncountable, plural raddles)
- A red ochre.
Synonyms
- reddle
- ruddle
Translations
Verb
raddle (third-person singular simple present raddles, present participle raddling, simple past and past participle raddled)
- To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
- To interweave or twist together.
- raddling or working it up like basket work
- To do work in a slovenly way.
Synonyms
- reddle
- ruddle
Translations
See also
- ruddy
- raddled
Etymology 2
From earlier radel, redle (noun), and ruddle (verb), perhaps a transposition of hurdle or an alteration of riddle (“curtain”).
Noun
raddle (plural raddles)
- A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
- A hedge or fence made with raddles.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Todd to this entry?)
- An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
Synonyms
- (weavers' tool): evener, niffler
Anagrams
- Aldred, ladder, larded
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