(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.
Waffle
Definition:
(n.) A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.
(n.) A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among Williams's targets was David Cameron's "big society", which he suggested was aspirational waffle .
(2) • carteblanchefoodcart.com Miss Kate's Southern Kitchen Miss Kate's Southern Kitchen Photograph: Marina O'Loughlin for the Guardian This folksy cart dishes out Southern comfort food: freshly made mac 'n' cheese, pumpkin-spiced waffles with maple butter, meatloaf and succotash .
(3) At a time when most scientists were still hesitant to speak out, he said the evidence of the greenhouse gas effect was 99% certain, adding "it is time to stop waffling".
(4) Open daily, 12.30pm-3pm and 6pm-midnight; Fri and Sat 5.30pm-1am Dan Doherty, executive chef at 24-hour restaurant the Duck and Waffle Beigel Bake, Brick Lane Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy I’ve just had a kid, so it’s not often enough I find myself in the state, or the area, for Brick Lane’s Beigel Bake.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cameron accused of waffling by English Literature student Giles Fraser: ‘Cameron doesn’t have a higher vision than the price of the pound’ Oh, how the prime minister has demeaned the high calling of his office.
(6) Elections should be between real options, not between leaders who disguise their fear of radicalism with waffle about transformative authenticity, realism and delivering change.
(7) The whole of Australia was pleased when we got rid of Mr Angry and we got Mr Smiley, but now we know what we have got is Mr Waffle,” Albanese told the Nine Network.
(8) And wrong because it was carefully, cynically manufactured to get dullards hot under the collar – and lefty writers like me waffling on about precisely how wrong it is on Comment is free.
(9) But with luck it will do them a massive favour, help to refocus minds and silence the waffle about building for Japan 2019.
(10) Clegg's comeback was pure waffle: regionalisation has worked elsewhere, and we should expect it to work here.
(11) He was depressed, his marriage was collapsing, and one night he wandered into a comedy club and took to the mic, cracking the only joke he could think of, about French farmers, then waffled about his divorce.
(12) Davidson has the best of Boris Johnson – an ability to appeal to voters across the board – without his waffle or sense of entitlement.
(13) I remember my frustration at the early work of Pappy’s Fun Club (couldn’t stand it), Sara Pascoe ( “tapering waffle” , I wrote) and James Acaster ( “man-childish and underpowered” ) – all of whom went on to bona fide comedy greatness.
(14) There is a lot of waffling, none of which seems particularly relevant to Thanet: a question about the minimum wage reveals that only the Green and Labour candidates have any idea what it is.
(15) The only difference is we have had no action, and more waffle.” Record low wage growth is a blow to the government's case for tax reform | Greg Jericho Read more Morrison, the treasurer, said in January he was passionate about addressing bracket creep as it was “one of the things that is holding the Australian economy back”.
(16) Not the Spitzenkandidaten, to be sure – all of whom waffled away in different directions when asked about Ukraine ("We need a lot of dialogue," said Keller.
(17) Another, who declared that she was an English literature student, said: “I know waffling when I see it.” That line secured the biggest round of applause of the evening.
(18) He should have been fired; instead he waffled excitably yesterday, commenting on Murray's win.
(19) Rectangular surface specializations frequently seen near the annulus display a waffle-like texture.
(20) The justice minister, Dominic Raab, who is campaigning for out, said the prime minister faced a “reality check” when he was accused by an audience member of waffling.