Unsteadily vs Daddle - What's the difference?
unsteadily | daddle |
In an unsteady manner, so as to shake or falter.
In an uncertain manner; with hesitation or timidity.
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(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.
To diddle (cheat)
*1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
As an adverb unsteadily
is in an unsteady manner, so as to shake or falter.As a verb daddle is
(intransitive|archaic|or|dialectal) to walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle.unsteadily
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Adverb
(en adverb)- He climbed the stairs unsteadily , grasping the banister and gasping for breath.
- "I reckon. It's powerful fine to hear that," replied Lassiter, unsteadily .
daddle
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Verb
- "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."