Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hand.
- noun A large bib or pinafore.
- To walk with tottering steps, like a child or an old man; waddle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive, archaic or dialectal To walk
unsteadily ;totter ;dawdle - verb To
diddle (cheat )
Etymologies
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Examples
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But, I use a Rem 11-87 with a daddle mount, 4x scope, and a screw-in choke tube.
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But, I use a Rem 11-87 with a daddle mount, 4x scope, and a screw-in choke tube.
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Hey daddle daddle, the cat went to battle the werecow beneath the moon.
Zombie Rhymes: Hey Daddle Daddle jimhines 2010
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Hey daddle daddle, the cat went to battle the werecow beneath the moon.
Zombie Rhymes: Hey Daddle Daddle jimhines 2010
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We had cheerleaders and a losing basketball team for them to cheer for – Bobo skewatten-daddle, get it right!
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Michael, can you you even bear to say the word ‘daddle’ aloud?
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Diddled he daddle a drop of the cradler on delight mebold laddy was stetched?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Air Force was allowed to maintain a bombing range right off shore, and the major oil companies continued to drill and dredge and diddle and daddle all along the edges of the preserve.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976
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When Mog up with her daddle, bang-up to the mark, [9] and she black'd the Bunter's eye.
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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Nelson, and the family tradition is that the hero accosted him with a kind smile and said, 'Give me a shake of your daddle, my boy, for I've only one to shake _you_ with.'
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
bilby commented on the word daddle
Seems to be lots of semantic overlap between daddle, diddle, doddle and dawdle.
August 11, 2012
pterodactyl commented on the word daddle
And toddle.
August 11, 2012
bilby commented on the word daddle
Indeed! And waddle, come to think of it.
Interestingly the toddle page's resident etymologiser only offers 'origin unknown'.
August 12, 2012