waddlesome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

waddle +‎ -some

Adjective[edit]

waddlesome (comparative more waddlesome, superlative most waddlesome)

  1. Characterised by a waddling gait.
    • 2001, The Way of the Wanderer: Discover Your True Self Through Travel:
      I was angry with my bubble-brained antics and my waddlesome sloth, with my guides, with the thunder, with this stupid maze of rocks.
    • 2021, Philip D'Anieri, The Appalachian Trail: A Biography, page 199:
      Thru-hiking the AT, he wrote in the opening pages of the ensuing book, would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth.
    • 2021, Irvin S. Cobb, Old Judge Priest:
      Beholding his waddlesome approach out of the tail of her eye, the white animal would whinny a dignified and conservative welcome.