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Toddle vs Trickle - What's the difference?

toddle | trickle |

As verbs the difference between toddle and trickle

is that toddle is to walk unsteadily, as a small child does while trickle is to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

As a noun trickle is

a very thin river.

toddle

English

Verb

  • To walk unsteadily, as a small child does.
  • To walk in a carefree manner.
    • There he was, just toddling along.

    Synonyms

    * totter

    Derived terms

    * toddler * toddle off

    trickle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very thin river.
    • The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle .
  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling .
    • The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

    Verb

    (trickl)
  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
    • The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
    • Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
    The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
  • To move or roll slowly.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Their only shot of the first period was a long-range strike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamely wide.}}

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