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Waddle vs Daddle - What's the difference?

waddle | daddle |

As verbs the difference between waddle and daddle

is that waddle is to walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side while daddle is (intransitive|archaic|or|dialectal) to walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle.

As a noun waddle

is a swaying gait.

waddle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A swaying gait.

    • Verb

    (waddl)
  • To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side.

    • Anagrams

    * English intransitive verbs

    daddle

    English

    Verb

  • (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)
    • "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."

    Derived terms

    * diddle-daddle