(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.
Waggle
Definition:
(v. i.) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
(v. t.) To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Other than waggling, they don't have articulation."
(2) Lord Turner replies that neither the BoE nor the FSA were making a "regulatory instruction" (just a waggle of Merv's eyebrows?).
(3) Instead, all we've seen so far is waving and waggling, and that's not for me.
(4) Experiments on the division of labour in honeybee hives have revealed why some bees do the waggle dance while others nurse their queens.
(5) Back in Budapest, watching Charli and her all-girl band on stage, it's easy to see the appeal: live, she is a force, years of arena support slots whirled into a show full of wild mane-flicking, stomping, impressive back bends and tongue-waggling.
(6) Precocial copulation in 2-wk.-old male chicks, described behaviorally as free mount, tread, posterior contact, waggle, peek, and seize, was developed through hand-training experience and androgen treatment.
(7) Health secretary Jeremy Hunt might also be waggling a toe over the water with a column in the Telegraph today setting out how he thinks Britain could stay in the single market but not with that pesky free movement element: “a Norway-plus option”.
(8) In the courtroom below it was elbow-waggling room only as the usual throng of briefs and their bagmen were swamped by a crush of interested parties, among them a smattering of furrowed-looking men in replica shirts who would keep a determined vigil throughout the day.
(9) Farage wore the look of a man ground down by repetition; a man who knew that every aside, every waggled eyebrow, every non-joke that sounded like a joke because it was inexplicably delivered in a jokey see-saw cadence, would be greeted by the Ukip faithful with the same graceless “weeeeey” noise that daytime drinkers make in crap pubs whenever the barmaid drops a glass.
(10) Photograph: Rex Features Rest assured that Riva's waggling feet do not feature in the final cut of Amour – a film that sticks largely to the same book-lined apartment, keeping pace with its characters as they move inexorably towards the exit door.
(11) When performing their famous " waggle dance ", they even use an inbuilt clock to make allowances for the shift in the position of the sun during the time elapsed since they have flown back to the hive.
(12) If you could zoom out beyond the moon, beyond time itself, and picture the entirety of humankind since its creation to its eventual end, and somethow witness it repeatedly pinging the phrase PLEASE AUTHENTICATE MY EXISTENCE back and forth between itself, we'd probably resemble a squirming galaxy of bees endlessly performing needy little waggle dances in front of each other, minus the useful pollen co-ordinates.
(13) 1996 Michael Jackson's messianic performance of his new single, Earth Song, proved too much for Jarvis Cocker, who clambered on stage and waggled his bum defiantly in the King of Pop's direction, before being escorted away by security.
(14) "Then we work like this," she waggles her tongue with the rapaciousness of Michael Douglas, "and then we pick ourselves again."
(15) For three decades, the Brit awards have entertained the masses with fluffs, gaffes, pranks and waggled bums, while gathering the great and good of the music industry for an evening of back-slapping and recognition of the year's achievements.
(16) If their plastic grips and waggling antennae bore a passing resemblance to a £15 novelty golf ball finder, that was no coincidence.
(17) Her song finished second in the Austrian competition after Trackshittaz's hip-hop atrocity Woki Mit Deim Popo ("Waggle your arse"), but this year the national broadcaster, ORF, chose Conchita as the country's representative.
(18) Saenko then barges into Marchena, prompting the referee to waggle his finger at both of them.
(19) "I have panic attacks and I have breakdowns, and stuff like that, so I feel like if I'm just like la la la la la …" she waggles her head as if it's in the clouds.
(20) Behind Henson, Frank Oz was adjusting Miss Piggy, doing her splendid diva head-waggle as she addressed her "Kermie".