[f. WADDLE v. + -ER1.] A person or animal that waddles.
1822. National Gaz., 9 July, 2/2. This grovelling waddler wishes to dignify himself, by esteeming us his enemies!
1828. Lights & Shades, II. 121. A basket containing half a dozen defunct waddlers [ducks].
1830. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXVIII. 849. A flock of those noisy waddlers [geese].
1859. Sporting Mag., July, 3. Many thought Musjid [a racehorse] a ‘waddler’ with his hind legs.
1893. Earl Dunmore, Pamirs, I. 143. These waddlers had waddled sufficiently.
b. A defaulter [see WADDLE v. 2 d].
1787. Caledonian Mercury, 3 Sept., 3/1. Some people think such a procedure would hurt the market, by preventing waddlers (after once being exposed) from making any composition.
1831. Westm. Rev., XV. 208. Were he of the Stock Exchange he would rail against waddlers and men of straw.
