"Waddles" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Waddles" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers

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"Waddles" Meaning

To walk in a clumsy or unsteady manner, typically with a wobbling motion of the legs, typically because of being overweight or drunk.

"Waddles" Examples

Here are 5 usage examples for the word "waddles":

1. The duck waddles across the pond, its feathers ruffled and its webbed feet flapping wildly.
2. After eating too much turkey for dinner, she waddles across the room, her stomach feeling bloated.
3. The expectant mother waddles down the hospital corridor, her pregnancy bump on full display.
4. The cute little penguin waddles along the snowy beach, its flippers flapping to keep its balance.
5. Due to her high heels, she waddles away from the car, desperate to get some support and stability.

"Waddles" Similar Words

Wad

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A wad is a small quantity of compacted or soft material, especially wool or cotton.

Wadati-benioff

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A seismic term!<br><br>Wadati-Benioff zone refers to a zone of deformation at the boundary between two tectonic plates, specifically a zone of deep earthquakes that occur at the boundary between an oceanic plate and an overriding continental or oceanic plate. It is named after two Japanese seismologists, Kiyoo Wadati and Hugo Benioff, who first identified this type of seismic activity in the 1930s and 1940s.

Waddaya

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Informal expression: an informal way of saying "what do you say" or "what do you think?"

Wadded

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To be unusually wasteful or extravagant in expenses, especially of money.

Waddenzee

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The Wadden Sea, also known as the Waddenzee in Dutch, is a shallow body of water which is part of the North Sea, located in the northwest of North Germany, the Johns' Coast of Norway and Northern Netherlands.

Wadding

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Wadding is a noun that has several related meanings:<br><br>1. Filling or padding, often used to make something thicker or more comfortable, such as a wadding in a coat or a wadding material used in pillows.<br>2. A layer of insulating material, such as wool or down feathers, used to keep something warm.<br>3. To walk waddingly or clumsily, meaning to move unsteadily or with a waddling gait, often due to being overladen or unwieldy.<br><br>Example sentences:<br><br> The shop sells wadding to stuff pillows with.<br> The cold wadding in the boots warmed her feet.<br> After eating an overlarge meal, she began to waddle down the street.<br><br>It can also be used in the context of:<br><br>1. Waddling, as in the gait or movement.<br>2. A wadder, a person who performs the waddling movement.<br>3. Wadding on the water, a term used to describe a sailing term, to steer a boat near the wind.<br><br>In the 16th century, a wadder could also be a trained bear who was dressed and performed imitations of human gait, hence the term "waddling upstage".

Waddle

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To walk with a waddling gait, often in a clumsy or awkward manner, as if one leg is shorter than the other. This gait is often associated with ducks or geese but is also used to describe a person who walks in an unsteady or uncoordinated way, usually due to a loss of balance or some physical limitation.

Waddled

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To walk or move unsteadily, especially with a sloping or wobbling gait, typically because of a lack of coordination or balance; to walk with a clumsy, awkward gait.

Waddling

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To walk with an unsteady, awkward gait, typically because one's feet feel clumsy or one's legs are shaking with fear or annoyance.<br><br>Example: "The baby began to waddle because she couldn't stand up without holding onto something."<br><br>It can also refer to the movement of a duck or other bird when it is walking on land.

Waddon

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It appears there is not a commonly used word as "waddon".

Waddy

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A colloquial or dialectal term. "Waddy" is a dialectical or colloquial variant of the word "water". It is used in the northern parts of England, especially in Liverpool and other Merseyside areas.

Wade-giles

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Wade-Giles is a historical romanization system that was used to transcribe Chinese characters into the Latin alphabet. It was developed in the 19th century by Thomas Francis Wade and Herbert Allen Giles, two British politicians and officials in China. The system was widely used by Western scholars and missionaries who wanted to read and write Chinese words using the English alphabet.<br><br>Wade-Giles uses a system of diacritical marks and pronunciation guides to represent the sounds of Chinese characters. It is still used in some contexts, but it has largely been replaced by the Hanyu Pinyin system, which is more phonetic and easier to learn.<br><br>The Wade-Giles system is particularly known for its use of "-h" to represent the sound /x/ (also known as the "shh" sound in the back of the throat), whereas Hanyu Pinyin uses the letter "q" to represent the same sound.

Wade

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To walk or move through water that is shallow enough to allow this.

Waded

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Wadeford

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Wadeford is a surname of English origin. It is derived from the Old English words "wad" meaning "a partisan or a fenser, one who clears land" and "ford", which refers to a shallow point or crossing place in a river.<br><br>In other words, a person with the surname Wadeford was likely someone who lived near a crossing point over a river, where a clearing or a forest was breached to create a passage.

Wader

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A type of waterproof shoe or boot, typically worn for fishing or walking in wet or muddy conditions.