ppl. a. [-ING2.] That waddles (see the verb).

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1662.  Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., III. verse 17. xii. § 5. 90. Thus the little wadling child comes to go strongly, by going often.

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1678.  Otway, Friendship in F., IV. i. You … Addle-pated, wadling brace of Puppies.

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1714.  Gay, Sheph. Week, iii. 62. Let the fox … join in wedlock with the waddling goose.

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1729.  T. Cooke, Tales, etc., 96. A short squad Figure, with a wadling Pace.

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1863.  Geo. Eliot, Romola, lvi. She saw … a little child … pause from a waddling run and look around him.

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  Hence Waddlingly adv.

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1882.  E. O’Donovan, Merv Oasis, I. i. 23. Great flocks of wild geese marched waddlingly on either side.

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