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ry fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.

One who, or that which, waddles.

Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.

The shoveler. [Local, U.S.]

A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.

k; gabble; fustian. I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes.

One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

To take a swaddle from; to unswathe.

Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. "This is mere moral babble." Milton.

To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or Slang]

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. Piers Plowman. Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. Sandys.

against. Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath. Dryden. Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose stumbled on a snake. C. Smart.

from Swaddle, v. Swaddling band, Swaddling cloth, or Swaddling clout, a band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Luke ii. 12.

a. & n. from Twaddle, v.

Idle trifling; twaddle.

To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. L'Estrange.

One who twattles; a twaddler.

To take a swathe from; to relieve from a bandage; to unswaddle. Addison.

To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle. Why do you go nodding and waggling so L'Estrange.

To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.