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Waddle vs Hightail - What's the difference?

waddle | hightail |

As verbs the difference between waddle and hightail

is that waddle is to walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side while hightail is (usually|transitive) to move at full speed, especially in retreat.

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

    hightail

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb); usually, with it ; see hightail it.
  • (usually) To move at full speed, especially in retreat.
  • :He hightailed it toward town.
  • :I want you to hightail your butt out of there before they come back.
  • :As soon as she arrived, I hightailed out of there.

    • Synonyms

    * (move quickly) skedaddle