(v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
(v. t.) To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
Example Sentences:
(1) These changes were considered to be the result of talipes equinus and waddling gait, which are commonly demonstrated in patients with DMD.
(2) Chris Waddle (Former Newcastle winger) Management's not like playing and Alan will find that out.
(3) By 15 years the patient demonstrated a noticeable progress of motor disorders: she was unable to stand up from the chair, experienced difficulties in walking along the ward, and had a waddle gait.
(4) The patient presented with all the signs typical of the disease: severe rhizomelic dwarfism discovered during the second year of life, relatively normal height of trunk, short and massive hands and feet, waddling gait, gross epiphyseal [corrected] gland alterations and shallow vertebral bodies.
(5) He had a waddling gait with proximal hypotonia and paresis.
(6) Progressive diaphyseal dysplasia is characterized clinically by crippling leg pain, fatigue, headache, poor appetite, muscle weakness, and waddling gait.
(7) A 3-year-old boy was seen because of delayed developmental milestones, waddling gait, nonprogressive proximal muscle weakness and hyporeflexia.
(8) Cross the road and pick up some jam and biscuits in Le Comestible grocery and then waddle up to Kuzina fish restaurant for some oysters before settling down for a nightcap in Bar-Cave de la Monnaie on the next corner.
(9) It came to Waddle, 12 yards out on the left side of the box, and he smacked a brilliant first-time shot across Illgner and flush off the inside of the far post.
(10) England (5-3-2): Peter Shilton; Paul Parker, Terry Butcher, Mark Wright, Des Walker, Stuart Pearce; Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne , David Platt; Gary Lineker, Peter Beardsley.
(11) England 1–1 West Germany (3–4 pens) Waddle smashes his penalty inches over the bar – although such is its dramatic trajectory it soon looks like he’s missed by yards – and England’s dream is over.
(12) The patron saint of Walkers crisps scored a late equaliser, before Chris Waddle fired over the bar.
(13) The symptoms included a waddling gait and crepitus, pain, and tenderness over the symphysis pubis.
(14) A time when you couldn't bulk-buy cheap meat, produce crap food with it, and sell it every few yards along every high street, and outside every school, until loads of us are waddling about, obese and poorly, or malnourished, while others are swanning into Heston Blumenthal restaurants to eat "meat fruit" (c 1500) which is mandarin, chicken liver & foie gras parfait or "rice & flesh" (c 1390) which is made with saffron, calf tail & red wine.
(15) Mark Pougatch, presenter of 5 Live Sport, will present commentary of the matches from venues throughout South Africa with pundits including Graham Taylor, Robbie Savage, Chris Waddle, David Moyes and Danny Mills providing expert analysis.
(16) Both patients had a waddling gait, Gowers' maneuver in arising, terminal atrophies and pseudohypertrophies of some muscles, marked fasciculations, and fascicular tremor.
(17) 2.53pm GMT 68 min Waddle makes a lovely angled run behind the defence but Gascoigne overhits his through ball this much and that allows the last man Kohler to come across and concede a corner.
(18) For three years he had increasing pain in the lower back and hip with a noticeable waddling gait.
(19) Waddle’s free-kick from the right is headed clear by Klinsmann; it comes to Gascoigne, who controls the ball on his chest 22 yards from goal and then lashes the bouncing ball towards goal.
(20) He’s finished.’ “Kevin completely turned it round with Peter [Beardsley] and Chris Waddle.
Waddler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, waddles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mutation, called rostral cerebellar malformation, rcm, has been located on chromosome (Chr) 3 between the alcohol dehydrogenase-3 (Adh-3) complex and varitint waddler-J (VaJ).
(2) The autosomal recessive gene cdm that confers resistance to cadmium-induced testicular necrosis in certain inbred strains of mice has been mapped on Chromosome 12 near varitint-waddler (Va).